Iran’s Remarkable Election

Issue Date January 1998
Volume 9
Issue 1
Page Numbers 80-94
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About the Author

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of Middle East History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution (1990). During the 1960s and 1970s, he was an editor with Kayhan Newspapers in Tehran, and reported from Tehran for the Economist, the London Times, and the Financial Times.

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Further Reading

Volume 16, Issue 4

Iran’s Peculiar Election: The Role of Ideology

The election results reflect less what voters want than the ideological dynamics that shape the behavior of factions within the regime.

Volume 18, Issue 4

Iran’s Resilient Civil Society: The Untold Story of the Fight for Human Rights

Observers who focus too much on elections have failed to grasp the maturation of Iranian civil society, even as hard-liners have come to dominate the government.

Volume 20, Issue 4

Iran in Ferment: Cracks in the Regime

The Islamic Republic is struggling, with the Revolutionary Guard Corps more and more the only thing propping it up.