Parnavaz is also said to have patterned his administration upon an "Iranian" model,Rapp, p. 275 .

Time will tell if the MB regime is more like the Turkish or the Iranian model.

The conviction that the Iranian model should be avoided in Iraq is apparently shared by the Iranians themselves.

Most have repeatedly asserted their desire for democratic government respectful of Islamic values, rather than government by mullahs on the failed Iranian model.

Iraq's leading Shiite ayatollah, Ali al-Sistani, has repeatedly rejected the Iranian political model.

It now firmly believes in one person one vote, and rejects the Iranian model.

Firstly, the Iranian model is not exactly what the young people who are revolting in these countries are aspiring to.

"But the corollary is we are not interested in empowering those who espouse an Islamic revolution in Iraq along an Iranian model," the official continued.

The defendants were also charged with conspiring among themselves and with Iran to overthrow Tunisia to set up an religious state on the Iranian model.

Along with the Bush administration, the other main opposition groups also fiercely reject the Iranian model of a cleric-run state.