Domestic Relations

Khamenei’s Strategy Backfires among His Own Supporters

Dariush Zahedi

ISTANBUL—Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s decision to give unequivocal backing to the demands of hardliners in charge of ensuring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection and the generals’ monopoly over the nation’s key political and economic institutions is filled with risk. Although his choice in the matter may have been limited, Khamenei’s actions appear irrevocably to have alienated a vast cross-section of the Iranian population from the regime. more»

Hashemi-Rafsanjani Faces Greatest Test of His Career

Anonymous

TEHRAN—Former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is perhaps the ultimate survivor in the rough-and-tumble world of Iranian politics, but now the aging revolutionary has found himself at the very center of Iran’s instability, in what could prove the ultimate test of his survival skills. more»

Opposition Movement Faces Its Greatest Challenge: Rapid Growth but No Leadership

Anonymous

TEHRAN—With so many leading reformists sitting in Iranian prisons, two important issues have arisen for Iranians: Has the Green Movement, and the broader opposition that it represents, been crushed by the regime’s latest moves? And, how much time has the regime bought to guarantee its survival? more»

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