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Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Actors, Strategies and the Future 

Abstract 

This article presents an understanding of the political universe of the actors that have been 

waging a power struggle in post-1979 Iran. Paying a special attention to the ever intensifying 

struggle since 1997 when Hatemi became the president, the article describes the political 

trajectories and objectives of the actors and new social movements that have been active since 

1990s. Conceptualizing the main contours of contestation as Conservatives and Reformists, 

the article presents a theoretical framework to probe the limits and prospects of the collective 

and individual strategies of the two main clusters of political power in Iran. The article 

concludes by presenting a road map for the possible courses of action that could be chosen by 

Iranian political actors in the near future..