... rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Kevan Harris Iran nuclear deal Islamic Republic US relations Hassan Rouhani Ali Khamenei Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Khatami Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 361 PERSPECTIVE There have...

... Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Revolutionary Guards Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Nabucco pipeline Mohammad Khatami petroleum Basij unemployment Muhammad Ali Jafari 424 A dramatic shift of economic power has taken place away from traditional pri- vate sector groupings and toward select...

... axis evil George Bush Iran Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Mohammad Khatami reformist September Taliban United States September 11 and subsequent developments have put to rest any idea that reforms will occur quickly in Iran or that relations will be restored with the United...

...Bahman Baktiari; Haleh Vaziri If [Khatami] does not seize the moment and conservatives continue to resist change, Iranian citizens will become increasingly impatient: their questions already are no longer ‘Why reform?’ or ‘What kind of reform?’ They now urgently ask ‘How?’ and ‘When?’ © 2001...

...://www.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions . 2001 Current History Khatami Khamenei The Islamic Republic of Iran defies easy cate-gorization. Although the government isavowedly Islamic and its decisions overseen by a religiously appointed supreme leader, elec- tions are held regularly, often...