Iran Election Watch 2013: The Ahmadinejad-Mashaei Current – Much ado about...
Editor’s note: As part of our Iran Election Watch 2013 series, we are analyzing the key political currents in the Islamic Republic. Today we look at the Ahmadinejad-Mashaei Current in part because of...
View ArticleIran Election Watch 2013: The Reformist Current – At a dead end
In a speech on 07 March 2013 during a ceremony commemorating Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corsp (IRGC) clergymen martyred in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi attacked...
View ArticleIsrael’s apology to Turkey: An anti-Iranian alliance and sign of a “new Cold...
By Adnan Riza Güzel Last week Tehran received what is likely to have been one of the worst pieces of news so far this year from Ankara and Tel Aviv. Three years ago Turkey had minimised its diplomatic...
View ArticleIranPolitik May Day Edition: The Iranian labour movement in 2013
Introduction As another May Day comes and goes, we at IranPolitik continue to be astounded by not only the worsening economic condition faced by Iranian workers, but also by the continued failure of...
View ArticleIran Election Watch 2013: What are the characteristics of the IRGC’s ideal...
We here at IranPolitik place special significance on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a political actor in the Islamic Republic of Iran. We have argued on our website before that the...
View ArticleIran Election Watch 2013: The IRGC and the case for a “semi-competitive”...
Are Iranian elections competitive? One of the essential questions about the 2013 Iranian presidential election for Iranians and outside observers is whether these elections are competitive. We all know...
View ArticleIranPolitik at Iran @ Saban
IranPolitik’s recent letter to the Saban Center for Middle East Policy regarding the 2013 Iranian presidential election was covered by senior fellow and resident Iran expert Suzanne Maloney. Here is an...
View ArticleIran Election Watch 2013: Saeed Jalili’s concept of “Islamic Civilization”...
Saeed Jalili: The Neo-Principalist hardline establishment’s man or one candidate among many? In much of the expert analysis on the 2013 Iranian presidential election conducted outside of Iran, there...
View ArticleIran Election Watch 2013: Final Edition – Why did Rouhani’s election victory...
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....
View ArticlePrincipalists Divided: Neo-Principalists under attack from Traditional...
The victory of Hassan Rouhani in the 2013 Iranian presidential election continues to reverberate throughout Iran and the world. Not surprisingly, one place where this victory is having a potentially...
View ArticleThe Islamic Republic’s Political Elite & Syria: Understanding What They Think...
IranPolitik managing editor Farzan Sabet has released a new report in collaboration with our partners at the Center for Global Communication Studies’ (CGCS) Iran Media Program (IMP): “The Islamic...
View ArticleRouhani’s achilies heel: Iranian and American hardliners
Many questions over the election of Hassan Rouhani as the eleventh president of the Islamic Republic of Iran remain. One of the most interesting is how it is that following the 2009 Iranian...
View ArticleThe IRGC’s stance on Rouhani’s victory: Wait and see
Although Iranian Principalists are loathe to admit it, they have suffered what many consider a profound defeat in the 2013 Iranian presidential election. The extent of the defeat should not be...
View ArticleSaeed Hajjarian on Hassan Rouhani’s dilemmas as president
Hassan Rouhani’s surprise victory in the 2013 Iranian presidential election has somewhat disguised the fact that a number of structural factors stand in his way if he is to successfully pursue his...
View ArticlePresident Hassan Rouhani’s conservative, security-intelligence-oriented...
Hassan Rouhani was inaugurated as the seventh president of the Islamic Republic of Iran on 04 August 2013 before the Iranian parliament. On the same day, Rouhani nominated the members of his Cabinet,...
View ArticleChemical weapons use in Syria: An obstacle to Rouhani’s moderate foreign policy
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was elected on a moderate foreign policy platform which promised, among other things, to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis, thereby weakening the harsh economic...
View ArticleObama versus McCain on Syria and the implications for Iran
As the United States ponders military action in Syria over allegations of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons on Syrian rebels and civilians, Iranian leaders are pondering how to...
View ArticleIran: Resolving the Nuclear Crisis
IranPolitik co-founder and managing editor Farzan Sabet has published a new article in Princeton University’s Journal of Public and International Affairs (JPIA): “American President Barack Obama...
View ArticleKhamenei, the Hassan and Hossein doctrines, and “heroic flexibility” versus...
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s domestic and foreign politics were rocked by the largely unexpected election of Hassan Rouhani as president in June 2013. Despite the election of the Centrist Rouhani,...
View ArticleIran Cyber Front: Rouhani’s cyber promises – Can, will he deliver?
Even before his surprise win in the 2013 Iranian presidential campaign, Hassan Rouhani had given indications that, if elected, he intended to improve Internet conditions in Iran. It wasn’t only Rouhani...
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