At hashemi rafsanjani's presidential campaign headquarters in Tehran, press agent Siavash Daryabar shows off a vast wall chart of Iran's regions with hundreds of circles, each indicating a local campaign operation. There's plenty of support for Rafsanjani, but in Iran's increasingly uninhibited political environment, there's also plenty of opposition. For the past few weeks, Daryabar has been churning out rebuttals to opposition attacks on Rafsanjani for everything from using his influence to enrich himself to being photographed with inappropriately dressed women. "I have never seen such smears," says the campaign veteran.
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