Iran’s Election
The Lowy Institute Interpreter has highlighted a new video from Vox giving a simple, quick and easy breakdown of Iran’s government and upcoming parliamentary elections that will be held on 26 February.
They say: Often Western media portrays Iran as just another top-down dictatorship with ‘no politics to speak of’, but there is real ideological ‘tussle’ within the Islamic Republic and its complex institutions. Iran has also been the subject of that question in the West: are Islam and democracy ‘compatible’?
The Interpreter is published by the Lowy Institute for International Policy, an independent, nonpartisan think tank based in Sydney.
Links
- The Lowy Institute Interpreter
- Vox.com – How Iran’s election could make history
- The Lowy Institute
