Iranian Moderates vs. Hardliners: A Myth That Won’t Die
One of its first propagators is now being held hostage by the “moderates.”
September 6, 2019
Iranian Moderates vs. Hardliners: A Myth That Won’t Die
One of its first propagators is now being held hostage by the “moderates.”
When world leaders gathered at the G7 conference in August, the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani mentioned his willingness to meet with his American counterpart. Shortly thereafter, Amir Taheri received a late-night phone call from a contact claiming that, if President Trump would take up the offer, he could hand a major victory to the “moderates”—led by Rouhani—over the “hardliners”—ostensibly led by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Taheri explains how this unsubstantiated interpretation of Tehran’s politics is as old as the Islamic Republic itself:
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