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		<title>Iran Election Watch 2013: Could Hashemi-Rafsanjani be disqualified from running by the Council of Guardians?</title>
		<link>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/05/21/guide-to-iranian-politics/iran-election-watch-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iranpolitik.com/?p=2674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since former President Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani entered the 2013 Iranian presidential election, many have debated the significance of this move. One must be skeptical of his chances of winning if he is allowed to participate in the election and his ability to rule if he is elected. But could he be disqualified, even before the formal campaign has begun? To some it may seem that the chances of an elder statesman like Hashemi-Rafsanjani being disqualified by the Council of Guardians from running in the 2013 election is remote. Yet rumblings by hardliners over the last several days should give observers reason for doubt. Their lines of attack have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Election Watch 2013: Ghalibaf’s schizophrenic electioneering</title>
		<link>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/05/17/guide-to-iranian-politics/iran-election-watch-2013-ghalibafs-schizophrenic-electioneering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 23:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2013 Iranian presidential election candidate-registrant Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf has tried to steer a course between hardliners and moderates. Ghalibaf recognizes that there are two potential source of power that he can appeal to if he is to have a chance at winning the presidency: The Islamic Republic’s hardline political establishment which includes Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on one hand and moderate Iranian voters on the other. We here at IranPolitik contend that at least since the 2009 Iranian presidential election, if not earlier, the hardline establishment has been a more important source of power. Regardless, by navigating a steady course between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IranPolitik&#8217;s &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; inspired 2013 Iranian presidential election pre-campaign posters</title>
		<link>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/05/12/guide-to-iranian-politics/iranpolitiks-game-thrones-inspired-2013-iranian-presidential-election-pre-campaign-posters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 13:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we await the Council of Guardians (CoG) to complete the vetting process for candidates in the 2013 Iranian presidential election, IranPolitik highlights four potential candidates who may play a crucial role in the upcoming 14 June vote: Supreme National Security Council secretary and lead nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, former President Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, and presidential Chief of Staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei. Of this group, only Mashaei is unlikely to make it through CoG’s vetting process due to the hardliners&#8217; perception that he is part of a “deviant current”. See IranPolitik&#8217;s &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; inspired 2013 Iranian presidential election pre-campaign posters to learn more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IranPolitik May Day Edition: The Iranian labour movement in 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/05/01/analysis/iranpolitik-day-edition-iranian-labour-movement-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/05/01/analysis/iranpolitik-day-edition-iranian-labour-movement-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 11:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 the so-called opposition, particularly the Reformist and Green Movement political currents, to support and cooperate with the Iranian labour movement. This movement is potentially one of the most powerful of its kind in the Middle East, which according to Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani numbers over six million workers as of 2006 and many times more if their families are included. Yet no mainstream Iranian political current has even seriously attempted to incorporate the labour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Election Watch 2013: Ahmadinejad&#8217;s dangerous game of chicken with the the Islamic Republic and why he does and does not matter</title>
		<link>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/04/24/guide-to-iranian-politics/ahmadinejads-dangerous-game-chicken-islamic-republic-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iranpolitik.com/?p=2615</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s game of chicken with hardliners As the 2013 Iranian presidential election campaign heats up the question of what role President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei will play has become a topic of increasing media scrutiny both inside and outside Iran. Many believe that Ahamdinejad’s ongoing provincial tours, among his myriad of other recent actions, are intended to mobilize support for Mashaei in the upcoming 14 June vote. Neo-Principalists, the hardline elements of the Islamic Republic, have however labeled Mashaei and his supporters the “deviant current” and threatened to confront them should they make a bid for the election. Addressing his and Mashaei’s detractors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IranPolitik @ the Milton Wolf Seminar in Vienna, Austria</title>
		<link>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/04/24/announcements/iranpolitik-milton-wolf-seminar-vienna-austria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/04/24/announcements/iranpolitik-milton-wolf-seminar-vienna-austria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IranPolitik co-founder and managing editor Farzan Sabet presented at the 2013 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy between 16-18 April 2013 at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria. This year&#8217;s seminar focused on the theme of &#8220;Diplomatic Maneuvers and Journalistic Coverage at a time of Reset, Pivot, and Rebalance&#8221;. Mr. Sabet appeared during session three on Iran and presented a manuscript entitled &#8220;Iranian Media Narratives on the Syrian Civil War&#8221;. This manuscript will be soon released as a publication. To learn more about the Milton Wolf Seminar visit our partners at the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS).]]></description>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s apology to Turkey: An anti-Iranian alliance and sign of a &#8220;new Cold War&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/03/25/analysis/israels-apology-turkey-anti-iranian-alliance-sign-new-cold-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iranpolitik.com/?p=2598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 contact with Israel, after the Gaza flotilla raid in which Israeli soldiers killed Turkish activists in international waters trying to transport humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. Now however the two rivals of the Islamic Republic have resolved their dispute with American mediation during President Barack Obama&#8217;s recent visit, pushing Tehran in a more precarious situation with its erstwhile foe, Israel, and emerging strategic rival in the Levant, Turkey. Ankara&#8217;s apprehension [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Election Watch 2013: Twenty four presidential candidates emerge</title>
		<link>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/03/17/guide-to-iranian-politics/iran-election-watch-2013-twenty-presidential-candidates-emerge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iranpolitik.com/?p=2590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION The 2013 Iranian presidential election began in earnest this February with the emergence of the first candidates. A recent Fars News Agency report from mid-March now gives us our first look at this election cycle’s crop of candidates, 24 in all, competing to becoming Iran’s next president. Although the actual field of candidates is wider, the Fars News list gives us a good idea of candidates who are actually considered to be within the Islamic Republic’s political establishment and may have a chance of participating. Candidates such as expatriate Professor Houshang Amirahmadi, who has recently gained international attention for announcing his candidacy for the election, have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Election Watch 2013: The Reformist Current &#8211; At a dead end</title>
		<link>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/03/08/analysis/iran-election-watch-2013-reformist-current-dead-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 the Reformist Current in one of the first majour attacks against them in the lead up to the 2013 Iranian presidential election campaign. In the speech, which contained many indirect allusions, he said that Centrists (led by former President Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani), Reformists (led by former President Mohammad Khatami), and the Green Movement (led by former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi and former Speaker of the Parliament Mehdi Karroubi) were united in a conspiracy against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Election Watch 2013: The Ahmadinejad-Mashaei Current &#8211; Much ado about nothing?</title>
		<link>http://www.iranpolitik.com/2013/02/22/analysis/iran-election-watch-2013-ahmadinejad-mashaei-current-ado-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 the prominence it has gained in the domestic Iranian and international press as of late. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a lame duck president. His policies, particularly in the economy and foreign policy, are largely perceived as failures by the Iranian public. He is under regular attack from the Iranian parliament and judiciary. Hardliners who supported him to the hilt during his first term now disparage him for his association with what they call the “deviant current”, [...]]]></description>
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