News Archive - 1 November 2017

Solidarity between Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri and President Hassan Rouhani was obvious from the very first moments of the first televised election debate, when former Tehran mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf started to bash Rouhani. Eshaq Jahangiri gave Qalibaf, sitting behind him, what supporters of Rouhani found a thrashing response.

This brutal 'Persianization' process was doomed to failure from the start.