News analysis from al Jazeera
"Battle for the Soul of Iran" and "Iran's Power Struggle" are 23-minute videos from Al Jazeera that are good background and might even be valuable teaching materials next year when you teach about Iranian politics.Battle for the Soul of Iran
Iran's Power Struggle
posted by Ken Wedding @ 7:45 AM
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The videos don't reliably show up in the blog post, so here are links to them.
Battle for the soul of Iran
Iran's Power Struggle
Patrick O'Neil pointed out this analysis:
Bernd Kaussler, who teaches US Foreign Policy, Middle East Security and Political Islam at James Madison University, writes in an op-ed piece for Al Jazeera, Iran: The end of the Republic?
"Thirty years after the Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran - if one can still call it a republic - is at a crossroads.
"What has been manifesting itself on Iran's streets since the disputed presidential elections is not only the electorate's collective feeling of injustice and rage, but also the religious-political elite's underlying divide over the future of the velayat-e faqih and its entire political system...
"The chief architect of Ahmadinejad's ideology is the hardliner cleric Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi.
"Time and again, Yazdi has questioned the legitimacy of the concept of republic within an Islamic system and he continues to advocate totalitarian rule of the jurist consult over the people, who he considers unable to form any social contract with the state..."
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