CORE-UA 533 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: September 11 Attacks, Guardian Council, Shia Islam
17 Jan 2017
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Convinced minority faction to accept the end of the war. Had a prot g , but prot g had closed ties to freedom movement. Also had criticized go(cid:448)"s positio(cid:374) to e(cid:454)e(cid:272)ute people"s (cid:373)ojathade(cid:374). Kept him from succeeding and rising to power. Needed both political and religious credentials to be constitutional. Islamic republic amended constitution to allow khamenei to be supreme leader. ^ two of the most powerful political figure in iran today. Factionalism [economy, diplomacy, culture: conservatives: e. g. khamenei. Biggest faction at the beginning of the 1990s. Trying to reconstruct econ by attracting foreign investment. Sort of following neoliberal policies overall reduce the role of the government. Interested in preserving islamic values culturally: pragmatists: e. g. rafsanjani. But pushing harder to reduce role of gov in econ. Did(cid:374)"t stress as (cid:373)u(cid:272)h sartorials regs and culture. Rebuilding econ through foregin investment main goal: radicals: e. g. mir hossein mousavi. Tackle the problem of inequality gove needs action.
