
Fazili ,Yousra Y.; Between Mullahs’ Robes and Absolutism: Conservatism in Iran; SAIS Review of International affairs, Vol. 30, No.1, Winter-Spring 2010, The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 51-53. Abstract The contested 2009 presidential elections revealed deep divisions among Iran’s ruling elite at a political and clerical level, calling into question what a society governed by jurists and Islamic law truly means. As the leadership attempts to maintain its tenuous hold on power while suppressing a popular reformist movement, the question remains: How to resolve the tension between divine law and...
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