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TitelSo many similarities : linking domestic dissent to foreign threat in Iran  
AuteurM. Warnaar
Jaar2011
UitgeverHivos [etc.]
PlaatsThe Hague [etc.]
Pagina's18
SerietitelKnowledge Programme Civil Society in West Asia Working Paper
Serienummer20
ISSN2210-3473
OrganisatiesHivos – Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation, University of Amsterdam
OnderwerpSocial and Political Change
Trefwoordengovernment, policy
RegioSouthwest Asia
LandIran, Islamic Republic of
SamenvattingThis paper offers an analysis of Iran’s hardline narrative about the 2009 events in general and the Green Movement in particular. This narrative dismisses domestic challenges to the regime as a product of Western interference. The paper shows that this narrative is a product not of simple paranoia, but an inherently consistent and thought through narrative based in existing understanding of Western meddling. The regime not only tries to defuse opposition by connecting it to a foreign threat, but also aims to justify the violence used against journalists, reformers and Green Movement activists by branding them as ‘agents of the West’. Whether the regime succeeds in selling their message to a broader Iranian public remains the question, and may partly rely on the availability of a counter-narrative from the side of the Greens.  
TaalEngels
CategorieResearch
Soort documentRapport
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