Iran's Nuclear Deal: Less Popular There Than Here?
John McLaughlin - May 5, 2017
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Iran’s presidential election on May 19
will test whether negotiating the 2015 nuclear agreement with the
United States and other powers has given the country’s reform-minded
moderates a boost. The Obama administration hoped that reduction of
economic sanctions under the agreement would strengthen the hand of
Iranian politicians less committed to confrontation with the West.
Sure,
the question of who is actually a moderate or reformist has always been
hotly contested. In truth, very few Iranian politicians oppose the
fundamentals of strict clerical rule. But some have wanted to engage
more directly with the outside world while favoring fewer restrictions
on speech, assembly and women’s rights.
American
optimists hope that greater movement in that direction could be an
opening wedge toward broader and more fundamental change in the
revolutionary regime.
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