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It's too soon to determine conservatives' prospects for elections in parliament next year, but they have lately failed to achieve unity, he added.

"Right now they look poised to replay a bad movie we've already seen," said Kupchan. "They did not unite behind one person in the presidential election, and they lost badly."

If Rouhani's allies can use the 2016 parliamentary elections to get supportive lawmakers elected, they can put him in a winning position for the next presidential election and buy him time to implement economic reform, said Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, an Iranian professor of economics at Virginia Tech.

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While some Iranians have grown disappointed with Rouhani in the absence of progress on his campaign promises, they remain in favor of rapprochement with the outside world, he said.

"I see Rouhani's emergence as a middle-class movement for global cooperation and a better life for the average Iranian," he said. "It is very much in tune with working with America, working with Europe."

At first glance, expanding trade may appear at odds with Iran's so-called resistance economy, a 12-point stratagem laid out by Ayatollah Khamenei that has sought to reduce the effects of sanctions by making the country more self-reliant.

But many of those principles are not inconsistent with globalization, Salehi-Isfahani said. What's more, the concept of the resistance economy is fairly vague, so Khamenei could support greater openness without being seen to have compromised his values, he added.

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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would reject conditions for the lifting of sanctions that undermined the countrys honor.

If world powers set as a condition for lifting sanctions something that your honor wont permit, what would you do? Khamenei said as he met a group of Iranians from the holy city of Qom, according to the Iranian Students News Agency. For sure, no official in the country would agree to it.

Khamenei, Irans highest authority, made the comments three days after President Hassan Rouhani said the economy cant grow while the nation is isolated. Rouhani, a former nuclear negotiator, won the presidency last year after campaigning on pledges to improve Irans diplomatic ties and end sanctions imposed on the economy.

Under Rouhanis predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the nuclear program and any related technological advances were touted as proof of independence from the imperialism of global powers. While Rouhanis backing of the nuclear program has been more nuanced, conservative politicians in Iran still consider leniency on the matter as capitulation to outside pressure.

Khamenei has supported nuclear talks provided they dont encroach on what he deems the countrys rights. The U.S. and its allies accuse Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, while Iran insists its program is peaceful.

In his speech today, the supreme leader said that Iran must strive to develop immunity in the face of sanctions.

Diplomats from Iran and the group known as P5+1 -- the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia and China -- are set to resume nuclear negotiations on Jan. 18, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said yesterday, according to local media. The two sides failed to reach an accord by the self-imposed Nov. 24 deadline, extending negotiations by seven months.

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WASHINGTON- Iranian hard-liners are lashing out at Saudi Arabia, accusing it of conspiring with the West to keep oil prices low in a bid to harm the Islamic Republics economy and pressure the country to conclude a nuclear deal with West. In retaliation, Iranian hawks are urging restive Shia Muslims in eastern Saudi Arabia to rebel against the ruling House of Saud.

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Iranian hawks accusations have mounted over the Saudis refusal to cut production - in an effort to maintain its share of the global oil market - fueling the precipitous slide in prices. Crude oil prices have fallen by more than half since June, from $115 a barrel to below $50.

"We will not forget which countries schemed to lower the price of oil," the speaker of Irans parliament, Ali Larijani warned darkly during a visit last month to Damascus, the Syrian capital.

U.S. officials deny any collusion between Washington and Riyadh.

"The Saudis learned their lesson from the past when they curbed production to help keep oil prices high, only to see Russia and Venezuela grab some of their market share," said a senior U.S. State Department official, who declined to be named.

The real targets of Saudi Arabias decision not to cut production and to contribute to the falling price of oil are Americas shale oil producers, the official argued.

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Thanks to shale oil, America has become the worlds largest oil producer, an emergence that has reshaped the worlds energy market.

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