Spring of freedom

Iran's crises in 2019, the history will be written Iran’s crises in 2019 can herald a new era. Political and socioeconomic developments will signal definite Iran’s crises in 2019. The year 2018 ended with the Velayat-e Faqih’s regime engulfed by internal and international challenges. The regime is sinking deeper and deeper in its crisis on daily basis, due to political, economic, and social events. Iran experts see 2019 as a destiny-making year for this country. Iran’s crises in 2019: the main issues JCPOA & SPV One of Iran’s crises in 2019 will be the issues of the nuclear deal and the “ Special Purpose Vehicle” (SPV)  for its financial transactions. Since USA’s withdrawal of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the re-imposition of sanctions, the Iranian regime and its lobbies are facing serious blows. Europe’s economic promises could not prevent its companies from leaving Iran. The EU tried to mitigate the crisis by setting up a special pu...

File photo of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The internal power struggles in Iran have not stopped since 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Shah’s regime and was monopolized by the religious establishment that controls all joints of the Iranian government. The conflict between the wings of the reformist and militant regime has reached bloody levels against the backdrop of the Green Movement of 2009, which would have almost overthrown the hardliner conservatives loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, had the bloody crackdown by reformist not been suppressed. Today and while Hassan Rouhani who is a moderate president with balanced relations with the moderate reformists on one hand and with the moderate conservatives on the other hand, who is at the helm of the executive power, at a time when the Islamic Republic is facing qualitative challenges in the face of harsh US sanctions, the hardliner conservatives left no chance but to ignore Rouhani...