The deal to end Iran’s war with the United States was made by one part of the hardline establishment and might be savaged by another. To judge whether the peace holds, watch the fight among the hardliners and not the reformists.
In the nights after Iran and the United States agreed to end their war, crowds gathered in Tehran. The rallies were organised, and their target was strikingly precise: not the agreement’s terms but two men: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and the parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who led Iran’s negotiating team. The demonstrators called them traitors who had struck a bargain with America while forgetting the killing of the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
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معهد الشرق الأوسط (MEI) هو منظمة تعليمية مستقلة وغير حزبية وغير ربحية. لا يشارك المعهد في أي أنشطة دعوية، وآراء الباحثين فيه تعبر عن آرائهم الشخصية. يرحب المعهد بالتبرعات المالية، لكنه يحتفظ بالسيطرة التحريرية الكاملة على أعماله، ولا تعكس منشوراته سوى آراء المؤلفين. للاطلاع على قائمة المتبرعين للمعهد، يرجى النقر هنا.
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