POLITICAL ISLAM, REVOLUTION, AND POLITICS IN IRAN

Establishing an Islamic Republic  Referendum (03/1979)  Completion of the Constitution  Routinisation of the velayat-e faqih  Banning of all lay and secular parties  The war against Iraq ( ) reinforces the anti-imperialist stance and so the regime  International hostility and the exportation of the Revolution

Judiciary Council of Guadians (shoray-é néghahban) The EC regulates the conflicts between withi the system The Supreme Leader (Rahbar-e enghelab) President of the Republic (4 years) Assembly of Experts (Majles-e Khobregan - 86 religious members) Government Parliament Majles, 290 members THE PEOPLE (citizens older than 15 years old) Expediency Council (madjam-é tashkhis-é maslahat-é nezam – 30 members) elect nominat es approves Approves the candidates Nominates 6 attorneys Approves the candidates and the laws Approves the candidates Exerts power on the Nominates and might exert power on nominates Nominates the 6 religious members Police Army Pasdaran TV and Radio Bonyad Mosques Has direct Power on

Post-1989 Iran: routinisation  End of the war against Iraq, Khomeini’s death  Rafsanjani’s touseh (reconstruction)  The growth of public sector and public servants as ‘petty bourgeoisie’  Pragmatism in foreign policy  Talking the talk of normalisation, free economy and ‘thermidor of the revolution’

Social and political change  Petty bourgeoisie  The elites adopt the discourse of democratisation  The intellectuals and clergy talk about democracy, civil society and human rights ( 51vB3CI0&feature=related)  The influence of the international context

Khatami and reformism  Mohammad Khatami and the electoral campaign  The ‘reformist block’: who are they?  The reformists’ agenda  Disillusion with reforms: domestic constraints  The international context: Bush administrations’ detrimental role, pushing for regime change and the nuclear crisis

Ahmadinejad (2005-?)  Back to populism?  Ahmadinejad’s block: who are they?  Foreign policy: Ahmadinejad talks to the evil but strengthens Iran’s anti-imperialist position (Venezuela, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah…)  The opposition to Ahmadinejad: Moussavi and Karroubi

The green movement  The disputed election  The movement: a reformist legacy?  What’s new? The role of Islam  The notion of ‘post-islamism’: 0fRmFqU&feature=related  Economic dispossession and factionalism: Rdhv_cU, 06:01

The future challenges  Repression and support to Ahmadinejad  Factional rift between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei  The role of foreign pressure (sanctions, Israel and the US)  The future of the Green Movement: 5v3hxEg