#  Why the Death of Iran’s Leading Moderate Could Strengthen Its Reformists 

 





January 23, 2017

 

 

 CMES AM candidate Amir H. Mahdavi, who is also a researcher at Brandeis University's Crown Center for Middle East Studies, writes in the *[Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/23/why-the-death-of-irans-leading-moderate-could-strengthen-its-reformists/?utm_term=.6330f7acfc5e)* that, with the recent death of Iran's former president and leading moderate Hashemi Rafsanjani, many are concerned that current President Hassan Rouhani will be overpowered by the conservative religious establishment and a controlling Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. But Mahdavi says that Rouhani may in fact emerge stronger from Rafsanjani's death.



 

 

 



 

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