Rival factions line up ahead of an election that could redefine Iran’s direction


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Issue 1021 - 09 Sep 2016 | 8 minute read

The Shora-ye Negahban-e Qanun-e Assassi (Guardian Council) in late July announced that the next presidential election will be held on 19 May 2017. It will be a critical moment as the Islamic Republic is likely to be asked to choose between critics of the nuclear deal drawn from conservative/revolutionary factions and President Hassan Rouhani’s more outwardly-oriented pragmatic/moderate agenda. The polls will come at a potentially febrile moment, as the new US president beds in and the region’s several proxy wars place Iran at the forefront of efforts to bring order to a dangerously destabilised Middle East/North Africa area.

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