International Community Community if not with the United States specifically. In shia islam the main leader of the shias that bush is the first mom i only have two sons and hussein has son chose the path of peace and negotiations and hussein shows the path of confrontation on martyrdom so these two schools of thought provide different justifications for different policies and some of republic and the Supreme Leader it was the idea of. A mom her sons peace and reconciliation in the frame that was honorable an honorable peace of one. He called it heroic flexibility which allowed the system to make the compromise that was pretty painful with the great satan. New islamic order was set against the west and in particular against the influence of the United States. This new regime had not forgotten the twenty six years earlier in One Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty Three the cia had organized a coup detat there will be no question of history repeating itself. Dont forget that back on then Prime M
But the Supreme Leader refused to give in to the demonstrators he up held up Medina Jansa Point went and put down the protests with extraordinary brutality. My. Colleague from on a probably saved the regime that year but what price in knew he would need to give some leeway if his hold on power were to be preserved. I think this sort of awareness that iran had been through its own brush with potential Regime Instability in Two Thousand And Nine with the most serious protests that had taken place since the one Nine Hundred Seventy nine revolution cast a very long shadow and it was clear that. There was a consensus decision to move away from the kind of provocations that characterize
the period and move toward a new rapprochement at least with the broader International Community community if not with the United States specifically. In shia islam the main leader of the shias that bush is the first. To science. Her son and her same. Chose the path of peace and negotiations and hussein shows
to reestablish links with the outside world. economic sanctions notably those of the united nations and the embargo were factors that brought us to the negotiating table. in order to end. but there s another reason why the leader accepted nuclear negotiations the memory of the green movement of two thousand and nine. following the widely disputed reelection in june of the ultra conservative mahmoud ahmadinejad as president of the republic the people demanded the vote be overturned. the islamic republic was feeling the pressure. but the supreme leader refused to give in to the demonstrators he up held out my
son rouhani and president of the republic. thirty seven years after the revolution it is an unprecedented strategic shift by releasing iran from isolation president rouhani hopes to renew his country s relations with the rest of the world. president rouhani did a very good job and negotiating the deal but the idea certainly did not came from him it came from the supreme leader he was the one who had come to the conclusion that this issue had to be resolved at that time. the since the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution and the advent of the islamic republic it is the supremely appointed for life that has been master of the system and the real head of state. as a share theocracy the supreme leader s power is superior to that of the president of the republic who was elected by the people since the death of ayatollah khomeini
a persian country among arabs so without any doubt there is a ceiling for how much influence iran can have in the region but there is also a floor for how much influence of came out because it is of the region and it cannot be entirely excluded from the region. at the same time the islamic republic is at a crossroads in its history the aging supreme leader ali khamenei is increasingly frail and sick his succession will be a crucial element in the restructuring of the future political balance of the country. in the case of the current supreme leader his office is a big back black box of probably around a few thousand people working in that office and no one has a clear understanding of the power dynamics in that office the most influential people in that office and his own plans and designs for succession decision