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Iran on the Edge
After
a hotly contested presidential election that resulted in street riots
and a disputed claim to a renewed mandate by President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, Iran stands at a crossroads: between reformist and
conservative leadership, between its revolutionary past and its
post-revolutionary future. Ahmadinejad's claimed landslide was met with
angry disbelief by the country's reform movement; it also gave renewed
urgency to the many unresolved issues that face Iran at home and abroad.
How
will Iran manage its approach to the Arab World? How will it deal with
its rapid demographic growth? How will it manage its image through
media outreach-to the Arab World, Turkey, the West, China, Russia and
Africa? How will it manage a population, especially among the young,
for whom the Islamic Revolution has turned stale?
Iason Athanasiadis reports from Iran as these social, regional and evolutionary political developments loom large.
