Reza Marashi

Rouhani’s re­sound­ing vic­to­ry sheds light on at least three fac­tors con­tribut­ing to a sys­temic mis­read­ing of Iran.

While po­lit­i­cal elites bat­tle it out in elec­tions, the Iran­ian peo­ple re­main the biggest losers.

While sanc­tions are hav­ing a dev­as­tat­ing ef­fect on Iran’s econ­o­my, they have not changed Tehran’s nu­clear cal­cu­lus.

The In­tel­li­gence Min­istry is one of the most trust­ed sources of in­for­ma­tion among key Iran­ian de­ci­sion-mak­ers.

Sarkozy has re­peat­ed­ly pushed an Iran pol­i­cy that ex­ac­er­bates a root cause of the con­ti­nent’s eco­nom­ic malaise.

Oba­ma’s Iran poli­cies are falling prey to the same mis­takes that over­whelmed the four pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tions.

Re­cent in­sin­u­a­tions by Ali Khamei­ni shows a po­lit­i­cal strug­gle be­tween the supreme leader and the pres­i­dent.

In re­sponse to an al­leged as­sas­si­na­tion plot, Wash­ing­ton plans to im­pose even tougher sanc­tions on Iran.

In­ter­na­tion­al sanc­tions have ex­ac­er­bat­ed the pain of the mid­dle class strug­gling with high lev­els of un­em­ploy­ment.