Iran Risk Management Report: All eyes on P5 plus 1 talks in Geneva
Risk Management
Issue 956
- 18 Oct 2013
| 1 minute read
In 2009, massive protests about alleged vote rigging in a presidential election that saw the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted a brutal crackdown on reformists; two reformist leaders,Mehdi Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi, have been under house arrest since
2011. The June 2013 election of cleric Hassan Rouhani, who is seen as more moderate than Ahmadinejad, has raised hopes that some degree of political freedom may return.
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