1.   Efforts to overhaul campaign spending are made each year in Congress, but the ruling Republican hierarchy wants no part of it.

2.   Differences inside the ruling clerical hierarchy were never publicly aired during past Iranian elections.

3.   Khatami also urged the judiciary, a stronghold of the hard-line sympathy within the ruling hierarchy, to cooperate in bringing the assailants to justice.

4.   Khatami also urged the judiciary, a stronghold of the hard-liners within the ruling hierarchy, to cooperate in bringing the assailants to justice.

5.   Nateq-Nouri, a cleric, is backed by ultra-conservatives inside the ruling clerical hierarchy, which favors absolute religious rule but a laissez-faire economy.

6.   Nateq-Nouri is backed by ultra-conservatives inside the ruling clerical hierarchy, which favors absolute religious rule but a laissez faire economy.

7.   Nobody has been charged in any of the attacks, leading to suspicions that the campaign is being backed by powerful persons in the ruling hierarchy.

8.   Nobody has been charged in the attacks, leading to suspicions that the campaign is being backed by powerful persons in the ruling hierarchy.

9.   The demonstrations showed the continuing power struggle between Khatami, a moderate reformer, and conservatives within the ruling hierarchy.

10.   The demonstrations showed the continuing power struggle between Khatami, a moderate reformist, and conservatives within the ruling hierarchy.