As IranPolitik has argued in the past, Hassan Rouhani’s victory in the 2013 Iranian presidential election was due to a multitude of reasons, mobilizing people from across Iran’s political spectrum. One major constituency which appears to have supported Rouhani during the election were reform-seeking voters. Mohammad-Reza Aref, Reformist candidate in the 2013 election, dropped out of the race in favor of Rouhani helping create the Violet electoral wave which helped bring him to power. Rouhani himself explicitly appealed to reform-seeking voters during his campaign, appealing to them by calling for greater socio-cultural and political freedoms. Only three months into his presidency, however, the Rouhani administration has been confronted […]
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