The Dig: Iran, 1997-2022. Reform, Reaction, and Crisis
Jacobin Radio
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Is the Khartemi Administration in Crisis?
Gonna: We see the intelligence ministry basically executing killing, extra digitally executing and murdering a number of very prominent intellectuals. This also sets the Khartemi administration into crisis. So it's basically systematically kind of strangled the project. And this obviously creates a massive gap in expectations amongst Iranians who had voted for Khartemi twice over. Gonna: Mahmoud Abnna Jad wins the presidency in 2005 against that old friend Adi-Rafsanjani; he is really unlikely to rise to international prominence.
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