Iranian Foreign Policy After the Election of Hassan Rouhani

Speaker: Anoush Ehteshami, Durham University Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre The victory of President Hassan Rouhani represents the defeat of the most peripheral groups in the Iranian political. In this talk, Professor Ehteshami asks what drives President Rouhani’s worldview and what does his election victory tell us about Iran and the where it might be heading? Recorded on 27 November 2013. This is an LSE Kuwait Programme event.