Public apathy combined with the conceit of the newrulingclass, to deliver a particularly brutal humiliation to Rafsanjani, barred apparently not for his political views, but for the rather less dignified reason that the members of the Guardian Council thought Rafsanjani too old to be able to bear the burden of office.
Consequently the FARC has lost significant support abroad, even in Europe's socialist rulingclass, which recently came out in favor of President Pastrana's new military campaign.