Legislative in Iran: should we worry about a possible victory for the Conservatives?

Audio 7:30 p.m.

By: Romain Auzouy

This Thursday morning ends the campaign for the Iranian legislative elections scheduled for Friday.

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The election does not seem to excite the crowds in a country suffocated by the return of American economic sanctions and affected by a protest movement strongly repressed in recent months. A record abstention rate is announced. In the context of the conflict with the United States, it is the hard line of the conservatives embodied by the supreme guide Ali Khamenei which should draw its pin of the game. With what consequences both at the domestic level and on the international balance ? It's our decryption.

Our guests :
- Azadeh Kian , professor of political sociology at the University of Paris. Author of Iran, a movement without revolution? (Michalon 2011) and Women and Power in Islam (Michalon 2019)
- Oriane Verdier , RFI's special envoy to Tehran

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