The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the presidency of the
Islamic Republic of Iran in the summer of 2005 thrust Iran into the
international limelight in a way that few would have predicted.
Robust, confrontational and given to bombastic rhetoric,
Ahmadinejad has drawn condemnation from the West and praise from
the Middle Eastern street in almost equal measure. This Paper looks
at the details of his political rise and assesses his presidency to
date within the context of the dynamics of Iranian politics.
Examining the key themes of his presidency, it assesses the
effectiveness of his policies and analyzes his populist approach,
in particular his use of nationalism and the cult of the Twelfth
Imam. The author argues that Ahmadinejad, far from retrenching the
conservative values of the early revolution, is very much a product
of the social and political changes which have occurred since the
end of the Iran Iraq War; that his populism in both politics and
economics, along with the maintenance of a confrontational posture
abroad, represents an ad hoc, and somewhat incoherent, attempt to
disguise the growing contradictions which afflict the Islamic
Republic, and the conservative vision of an unaccountable Islamic
autocracy in the face of growing dissatisfaction, especially among
key sections of thete.
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