Future Challenges Faced by Iran

Future Challenges Faced by Iran

Meir Javedanfar - 21st March 2017

Meir Javedanfar explores Iran's challenging future. This is a chapter from the e-book 'The Future of the Middle East' co-produced by Global Policy and Arab Digest, and edited by Hugh Miles and Alastair Newton. Freely available chapters will be serialised here and collected into a final downloadable publication in the spring.

In the short to medium term, the biggest threat emanating from inside Iran which should concern the international community is increased factionalism and factional infighting.

Why should the international community care about factional infighting in Iran? After all, this is a domestic, internal matter for Iran and its politicians. Such an answer is correct, but only partially. In Iran, foreign policy, especially Iran's behaviour towards other countries, is greatly impacted by domestic political developments within the country.

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