Detail Ever-Resilient but Maybe More Malleable: Iran   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8783 (May 2012), page 45-46. Topik: Presidential Elections; Dictators; International Relations Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.71 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel In the summer of 2009, after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Green Movement of disaffected voters threatened Iran's Islamic Republic with revolution. But the regime and its myrmidons managed eventually to crush the sedition, in marked contrast to several neighboring Arab dictatorships that were skittled by the upheavals of 2011. Iran has since been the object of intense international sanctions, campaigns of murder and sabotage, and threats of war, all on account of its secretive nuclear plans. Yet last month it was amid expressions of mutual respect that Iran's nuclear negotiator sat down with the representatives of the UN Security Council's five permanent members plus Germany (known in diplomatic jargon as the P5+1). One reason for the Islamic Republic's durability against what many would regard as overwhelming odds is the dogged but subtle crisis management of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader. Three summers ago, his thugs used every weapon in their armory, including murder and rape, to squash the domestic opposition. The beginning of this year was marked by rhetorical belligerence against the West the kind of which had not been heard for two decades. Now, though, a softening may be under way. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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