As the smoke clears from the 2013 Iranian presidential election, the surprise election of Hassan Rouhani as the seventh president of Iran continues to dumbfound even the most astute observers of Iran. We here at IranPolitik must confess that we viewed a Rouhani victory, in the first round of voting no less, as a very unlikely scenario. Yet many have already begun discussing the implications of Rouhani’s election without really understanding why it has happened. Thus, as we take stock of our Iran Election Watch 2013 series of articles – 14 in all – we have asked ourselves a number of questions: Why did Rouhani’s victory seem so [...]
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