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E66: New Moderate Political Bloc in Iran May Complicate Supreme Leader’s Succession

2022/2/25
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Jacob Taylor介绍了伊朗新兴的温和派和改革派政治联盟,该联盟试图重新获得在政权中的影响力,并可能影响最高领导人的继任。 Nicholas Karl详细阐述了该联盟的构成成员,包括前总统鲁哈尼和拉里贾尼等重要人物。他们近年来在政治上日益边缘化,试图通过合作重新获得影响力。联盟的目标是通过合作,在政权内部扩大其政治影响力,并赢得未来的选举。他们认为,通过合作,可以增加在政权中获得政治影响力的机会,而不是像现在这样被边缘化。 Kitaneh Fitzpatrick分析了导致联盟形成的因素,包括最高领导人哈梅内伊操纵选举以确保强硬派获胜,以及温和派和改革派对自身在选举中获胜机会的悲观预期。他们认为,为了对抗强硬派,并可能改善伊朗的经济状况,温和派和改革派需要团结起来。 Nicholas Karl探讨了该联盟可能采取的策略,包括推动宪法改革,例如设立新的立法机构(参议院或总理职位),以及利用其在政治光谱中代表不同观点的形象来增强政权的合法性。他还指出,伊朗民众日益增长的不满情绪对政权构成威胁,温和派和改革派的存在可以帮助缓解这种不满。 Kitaneh Fitzpatrick和Nicholas Karl讨论了该联盟对美国的影响,以及对最高领导人继任的影响。他们认为,即使该联盟成功,也不一定意味着伊朗会缓和其对美国的敌意。该联盟的成功与否,以及未来领导层的构成,将对伊朗的政治和外交政策产生深远的影响。 Matt McInnis引导讨论,并提出关于该联盟目标、策略以及对美国和伊朗关系潜在影响的关键问题。他强调了对最高领导人哈梅内伊去世后的权力继承问题的关注。

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A new political bloc is forming in Iran, comprised primarily of relative moderates and reformists seeking to reassert their political influence in the regime. This bloc includes prominent Iranian politicians, such as former President Hassan Rouhani and former Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, who have become increasingly marginalized in the political establishment in recent years. This bloc could complicate the intra-regime struggle to determine who will succeed the supreme leader when he leaves the scene. On this episode of Overwatch, ISW Research Director Matt McInnis sits down with Iran analysts Nicholas Carl and Kitaneh Fitzpatrick from the Critical Threats Project to discuss this emerging bloc and what it might mean for US-Iran relations.