Iran And The End Of The Ahmadinejad Era

BROOKINGS

Suzanne Maloney

Over the course of Iran's recent roller-coaster-ride of a presidential election and the subsequent surprised analysis of the outcome, one theme has been clear: this election was intended to mark the end of an era, to close the door on an eight-year interval dominated by one man, the infamous incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. During his two terms in office, Ahmadinejad managed to outrage the world, erode Iran's economic and political stability, and emerge as a man reviled and ridiculed abroad as well as at home, where even his initial allies within the establishment have now shunned him.

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