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Podcast: Middle East Dossier
Episode: [Book Talk] Righteous Politics: Power and Resilience in Iran
Description: On March 1, 2024, the Islamic Republic of Iran will hold elections for the sixth term of the Assembly of Experts. The major responsibility of this 88-man institution, comprising qualified clerics, is to choose the future supreme leader after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death, or is rendered incapable of fulfilling the position’s responsibilities. Tehran’s political system, which relies on a complex set of institutional arrangements including a central personality, has held up despite internal strains.
Since the 1979 Revolution, Tehran has turmoil, from the war with Iraq in the 1980s to Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign more recently. Wh...