Resumen de Iran at a crossroad in 2017
Two visions of Iran and the world will clash in 2017. On the one hand, President Hassan Rouhani´s preferences for internal moderation and the integration of Iran in the world economy and multilateral diplomacy. According to this view, the 2015 Nuclear Deal between Iran and the International Community is only the point of departure for a better future.
On the other, Supreme Leader of the Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Jamenei, upholds the view that the Nuclear Deal has a limited scope and is consistent with the traditional anti -Western and anti-American stances of Iranian foreign policy since 1979. Political factions espousing one or the other, some even the repudiation of the Nuclear Deal, will clash at the presidential elections on 19 May 2017.
In fact, the extent of the process of political liberalization and the inevitable generational shift in the ruling elite underlie the disputes over the 2015 Nuclear Deal.
