Still, in the perennial struggle between hardliners and reformists, the reformists seem in some ways to be gaining the upper hand.
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More reformists in parliament means more support for Rouhani, and more reformists in the Assembly of Experts could mean a more moderate next supreme leader.
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Rouhani's win gives reformists a chance to build clout in the body that chooses the leader, the Assembly of Experts, where neither reformists nor conservatives dominate.
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Despite the obstacles, the reformists still want Iranians to vote.
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Today's reformists are the left wing of a muted coalition.
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Reform was not on the ballot, though some reformists were.
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But to many ordinary Iranians and reformists, he's a hero.
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It has 83 reformists and 60 independents among its 290 members.
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At home, embattled reformists felt they had lost their prime protector.
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The parliament has only limited powers, but reformists were nonetheless cheered.
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Their pronouncements from their confinement are eagerly followed by reformists online.
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Immigration reformists argue the plan denies individuals their right to asylum.
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Tech reformists like McNamee are generally focussed on the biggest actors.
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"The biggest achievement of this election is the return of reformists to the ruling system ... so they won't be called seditionists or infiltrators anymore," he said, referring to hardliners who accused reformists of links to the West.
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The reformists' best cause for hope is the split between the unions.
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Rouhani would emerge—not a reformist, but with reformists' blessing, and facing
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"On this basis only one percent of reformists were approved," he said.
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Reformists believed in the system, and wanted to improve it from within.
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While the reformists might have difficulty promoting their agenda, they are political kingmakers.
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Secor's last trip was in 2012, when reformists could no longer speak freely.
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The reformists, expecting a repeat of 2009, were as shocked as anyone else.
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Last year it helped the reformists get out the vote in parliamentary elections.
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"This is one way of getting at the reformists inside Iran," he said.
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The elections propelled moderates and reformists to their best electoral finish since 2004.
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Reformists, liberals and those who support moderate democracy are losing yet another citadel.
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During the 1999 and 2009 uprisings, the protesters enjoyed support from powerful reformists.
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But that remains a stiff challenge, even if many reformists were reinstated on Saturday.
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The reformists debated whether their opponents might be rationally persuaded to tolerate greater pluralism.
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Both have approached the Middle East as reformists, seeing the status quo as untenable.
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Even if the reformists gain power now they will be blocked by the hardliners.
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Moderates and reformists who support Iran's nuclear deal took all 30 parliamentary seats in Tehran.
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The reformists' slogans were "equality, freedom, brotherhood and justice," Umit told Reuters in an interview.
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Undoubtedly, they will use this leverage to prevent moderates and reformists from making significant change.
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They argue that U.S. support for Iranian protests would weaken the hand of the reformists.
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Today's reformists have far more modest goals; changing the constitution isn't part of the program.
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Jamal always said they were reformists, contrary to allegations made against them by Saudi Arabia.
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In 2013 his Justice and Development Party joined the European Conservatives and Reformists political family.
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It is expected to remain in the European Conservatives and Reformists grouping in the assembly.
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By barring reformists, Mr. Khamenei funneled public demand for change into a more acceptable candidate.
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Foreign oil companies and Iranian reformists are likely to regard Kardor's comments as a setback.
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As in Egypt, Iran's reformists were groping in the dark, never truly knowing where they stood.
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A heavy defeat could embolden dissidents and reformists within AK to attempt to restrain Mr Erdogan.
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They are now targeting social media, where pro-Rohani reformists have until now mostly operated freely.
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China's path has never been linear: reformists and conservatives have constantly jostled for the upper hand.
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Mr Rohani's hopes rest in a single list called the Alliance of Reformists and Government Supporters.
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Reformists were all but shut out of politics for nearly a decade until Rouhani was elected.
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Historical data have demonstrated that reformists stand a better chance of winning the higher the turnout.
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The European Conservatives and Reformists group (ECR) and the S&D follow with five seats each.
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No conservative was elected in the capital as the reformists won all 30 seats in Tehran.
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The coalition between reformists and moderates supportive of the government won all 30 seats in Tehran.
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The reformists risk sacrificing their identity in this coalition; outside of it, they sacrifice their relevance.
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Mesbah-Yazdi is a fierce critic of reformists and has even advocated violence against its supporters.
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As the crisis mounted in the early part of this decade, reformists called for collective action.
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The leader, Mr. Khatami, served two terms as president, and for four years the reformists dominated Parliament.
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The nuclear deal engineered during his presidency has been a major success for the reformists as well.
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Reformists had 58 seats, conservatives 105, and independents 46, results showed, excluding Tehran where results remain preliminary.
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Many Chinese reformists of the sort that foreigners meet loathe Mr Xi's upending of post-Mao norms.
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That marked a coup for Rouhani and reformists eager to show tangible benefits of the nuclear accord.
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In local elections the year after it won an outright majority and left the reformists with none.
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If more centrists or reformists win in either election, we could see continued progress in that relationship.
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He also has a debt to pay to reformists who put their weight behind his election campaign.
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This lack of clarity may stem from the fact that these people are not ideologues but reformists.
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More than 7,85033 potential candidates were disqualified from their races, most of whom were reformists and moderates.
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While the editors thought of themselves as reformists, they still considered a nose ring despicable and Western.
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In the past few months hardliners have taken control of a leading magazine once beloved of such reformists.
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During a period from the late 1990s, the reformists briefly gained control of both the presidency and Parliament.
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As a result, the remaining reformists have joined forces with supporters of Mr. Rouhani's self-styled moderate government.
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The far left is no stranger to divisions—between Trotskyites and Stalinists, Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, reformists and revolutionaries.
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Since the election of Trump for office, reformists in the art world have recast themselves as the resistance.
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The reformists and the traditionalists in Jokowi's cabinet have often clashed, both with each other and with him.
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Rouhani, in coalition with reformists and independent conservatives, wrested back control of parliament from hardliners in February's elections.
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Today the country's conservatives and reformists are waging a fierce political struggle on how to improve the economy.
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The election was the first time that reformists and moderates gained full control over the Tehran municipality council.
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" Bahar, 22, a student of medical genetics, said: "I will vote for the reformists because I want change.
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Now that forces aligned with Mr. Najib are returning to power, reformists and whistle-blowers are running scared.
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Reformists have already criticized Iran's support for the secular tyrant in Syria; those criticisms may grow in volume.
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Instead of opting for a boycott, the reformists offered support that was a decisive factor in Mr. Rouhani's victory.
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ECR – the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists has selected Jan Zahradil, a Czech lawmaker in the European Parliament.
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That feeling has unified hard-liners supporting Iran's clerically overseen government, as well as reformists seeking to change it.
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Both are regarded as moderates and have been accused by hard-liners of being too close to the reformists.
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Iran, he said, needs a way to block reformists and Western advances in light of the recent nuclear deal.
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Iran, he said, needs a way to block reformists and Western advances in light of the recent nuclear deal.
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Even so, the unravelling of the nuclear deal would hurt reformists and fuel the fires of the Middle East.
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The "Wukan model" became Chinese reformists' shorthand for what they hoped would be a new way of defusing unrest.
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Khatami's reformists made the error of sidelining and humiliating the veteran dubbed "the shark" in the 2000 parliamentary election.
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Their release is also a central demand by the country's reformists, but Mr. Rouhani has not commented on them.
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Western media often focus on secular, well-off Iranian youth living in north Tehran who generally back the reformists.
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But it also touched off a roiling controversy, pitting reformists against conservatives who resented Gogol's mockery of Russian officialdom.
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Today Muslim reformists point out that these values are much better protected in Western democracies than in "Islamic" states.
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It had already tried to shape Friday's vote by excluding thousands of candidates, including many moderates and almost all reformists.
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Within hours of his victory, reformists whom the authorities had detained in the run-up to the election were released.
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Rouhani was criticized by reformists two weeks ago when he submitted the all-male list of cabinet ministers to parliament.
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Hassan Rouhani won the Iranian presidential election in an unexpected landslide on Saturday, a win for reformists in the country.
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Hundreds of students have come out, but the middle class, and even reformists, have so far sat on the sidelines.
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The hard-liners say the reformists are scheming to introduce "American Islam" in Iran, a false version of their faith.
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But reformists seeking greater democratic changes are heading toward their strongest presence since 2004 at the expense of hard-liners.
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"You were supposed be a breath of air for the reformists after the suffocation of the Ahmadinejad days," Shahidi wrote.
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How Iran's government works The independents are more likely to ally with the reformists and moderates rather than the hardliners.
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According to Shirin Ebadi, Iran's Nobel Laureate, Hassan Rouhani's second term was the last chance Iranians would offer the reformists.
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And in Armenia, a post-Soviet holdout against democratic trends, power shifted last year amid nationwide protests to opposition reformists.
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It's the first such meeting since 1988, and reformists hope it will herald the end of the war on drugs.
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For those who remained free, the experience hardened their conviction that compromise and adaptation were crucial to the reformists' political survival.
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"Uptown, they vote for reformists because they want to protest against the hard-liners," said Saeed Taheri, who sells children's clothes.
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In 1997, reformists saw how the word-of-mouth, low-tech campaigning techniques brought about a surprising victory for Mohammad Khatami.
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His 2015 book, "Bismarck's Herring", attacked French reformists "hypnotised" by the "German poison" and compared them to World War Two collaborators.
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Conservatives may denounce their opponents as western stooges; reformists may mutter that the conservatives are the Shia equivalent of Islamic State.
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He is popular among reformists as well as hardliners, having led the fight against the Sunni jihadists in Iraq and Syria.
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Through highlighting the voices of Muslim reformists and liberals, I felt optimistic about a generation that could bridge our widening divisions.
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The Guardian Council, which vets candidates and is dominated by hard-liners, disqualified most of the reformists who wanted to run.
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"The reformists and moderates have 130 seats, more than everybody," argued Mr. Ghorbanpour, the political analyst close to the Rouhani government.
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Prolonged solitary confinement began in the U.S. in the 1800s, when New England prison reformists sought new ways to rehabilitate criminals.
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Reformists argue the system has made Malays dependent on handouts and has bred demagoguery that thrives on religious and ethnic tension.
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Reformists are now saying the 18 slots will all be filled by men, dashing hopes built up during Mr. Rouhani's campaign.
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He heads the Qatari Youth Rescue movement, which he helped found, bringing together hundreds of reformists residing in Qatar and abroad.
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It is unclear how many of the newly approved candidates are considered to be reformists, who are opposed by Iranian hard-liners.
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A decade of relentless pressure from the judiciary, the Revolutionary Guards and clerical councils dominated by hard-liners has confined Iran's reformists.
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The reformists are even supporting a conservative member of Parliament, Ali Motahari, who stresses that he is independent and not a reformist.
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This is what causes the regime to restrict internet access, tear down satellite dishes, shoot unarmed student protesters and imprison political reformists.
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The last time they won was in the parliamentary election of 2012, and that they owed to a mass boycott by reformists.
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Still, the anti-Iranian rhetoric of Donald Trump, America's president, is a big bonus for the anti-reformists, should they come together.
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Mr Trump's recent decision to brand the Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organisation gave them another boost; even reformists rallied around them.
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Yet it is also noteworthy that growth over the past decade has disappointed and that reformists have been sidelined in recent months.
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Hardliners and so-called "reformists" warn Iranians, and the world, that the motivation of the protesters is to destabilize and destroy Iran.
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Op-Ed Contributor FOR decades, Iran's politics have centered on a contest of visions that pitted democratic reformists against hard-line theocrats.
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The contrast between them appears to illustrate the extremities possible under Iran's Islamic Republic, even though Mr. Khatami's reformists were nobody's extremists.
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But there is no guarantee reformists can sustain that harmony, and some analysts doubts the newcomers can challenge Iran's powerful religious establishment.
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The students chanted a slogan against both reformists and hard-liners: "This is the end of their adventure," meaning the Islamic Republic.
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Early election results on Sunday showed moderates and reformists dominating both elections in Tehran, and making significant gains elsewhere in the country.
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Under pressure from the government, the Council overturned hundreds of bans on parliamentary candidates last week, rekindling the hopes of reformists and moderates.
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In 2009, hundreds of people died and thousands were arrested in protests after reformists disputed the electoral victory of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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His win shifts power to the reformists in the looming fight over who will succeed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran's next supreme leader.
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The ISNA news agency said 31 "reformists" had won seats, referring to Rouhani's allies, along with 20 independent candidates and just six conservatives.
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Reformists say that Mr. Khomeini and his family are popular, noting that their social media accounts have attracted hundreds of thousands of followers.
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Ayatollah Khamenei went even further, making it clear that the reformists faced an uphill battle to exert any influence in the immediate future.
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The conservatives have struck back, casting doubt on the reformists' patriotism and mocking the support they have received from the BBC's Persian service.
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Punjabi voters have had enough: the upstart reformists of the Aam Aadmi Party won their first parliamentary seats in Punjab two years ago.
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This time, with the slogans they chant on the streets, the people are showing that they do not trust the reformists any longer.
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While the majority of reformists were barred from running, they could still win a substantial bloc of parliament's 290 seats with their allies.
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Reformists had nearly 25 percent, independents 21 and principlists 36, according to calculations based on final results, excluding Tehran where results remain preliminary.
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She and her brother Mehdi have been harassed by hard-liners for their growing support of reformists and moderates seeking change in Iran.
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And even outside of this cataclysmic series of events, there are accusations that reformists' chances in the election have been undermined by bias.
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UMNO loyalists call him a turncoat, and reformists may question his bona fides as a democrat, but he is popular among many Malays.
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And to be Frank if I look at the French situation there are two interesting candidates , Emmanuel Macron and Fillon who are both very reformists and they at the moment if I look at the whole field of candidates having much better papers to win in the second round certainly than Le pen and these two guys both Macron and Fillon are reformists.
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Pro-European reformists in Ukraine have expressed concern that the latest political reboot will not eliminate the influence of powerful business interests on policymaking.
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Even Muhammad Khatami, a former president who had tried to mend fences with the West, called on reformists to join hardliners in decrying America.
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Hassan Khomeini, the first member of his family to stand in elections, is seen as politically moderate and is popular among Iran's beleaguered reformists.
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FRENCH reformists have promised for decades to streamline the country's 3,000-page labour code, only to be stymied by the country's mighty trade unions.
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Many reformists remain bitter, not just about their electoral exclusion, but also at what they see as Mr Rohani's failure to keep his promises.
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Reformists have done a great job mobilizing supporters and expect a high turnout, says Farideh Farhi, an independent scholar and expert on Iranian elections.
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In a bid to squeeze them out, reformists have allied with moderate conservatives, many of whom split with the hard liners because of Ahmadinejad.
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" Another former executive editor, Hong Zhenkuai, told the South China Morning Post: "The magazine represented reformists within the party and liberals within the establishment.
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Reformists also won 216 of Tehran's 16 seats for the Assembly of Experts, a crucial body that would determine the country's next supreme leader.
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The gains made by the moderates and reformists were not enough to decisively alter the balance of power in Iran, the president's supporters acknowledged.
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Mr. Ghorbanpour said this battle might herald many political fights to come, now that Parliament is evenly divided between reformists, hard-liners and independents.
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His main rival, Mohammad Reza Aref, a former vice-president under Khatami and the reformists' leading candidate for the Majlis, came first in Tehran.
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This included both reformists and moderates who have been vocal in their opposition to the Guard&aposs role in the country&aposs economic malaise.
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Reformists are also sweeping council seats in Mashhad, home to Mr. Raisi; in Karaj, a satellite city of Tehran; and in Yazd and Zahedan.
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Shargh, a reformist daily newspaper, said the reformists were also leading in other major Iranian cities like Isfahan, Kerman, Semnan, Shiraz, Tabriz and Zahedan.
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He fell out with Khamenei after backing the opposition Green Movement in the disputed 2009 presidential vote and is now allied with the reformists.
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"For the first time, the opponents of the reformists are also using social media," said Saeed Leylaz, a Tehran-based economist and political analyst.
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Hard-liners said the reformists were trying to make the council look bad by registering thousands of candidates they knew lacked the credentials to qualify.
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In 2013, in the final week before the elections, the reformists started supporting Mr. Rouhani, whom they saw as a technocrat, rather than a reformer.
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Nevertheless, for this election, the reformists are again supporting the government, saying that anything is better than the continuation of hard-line dominance in Parliament.
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The reformists don't really have a specific plan for how to change the Middle East so much as a sense that it has to happen.
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Complicating next week's runoffs are the disqualifications of thousands of moderate candidates, including almost all prominent reformists, by the Guardian Council, a hardline vetting body.
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Also, reformists won 15 of the province's 16 seats for the Assembly of Experts, a crucial body that would determine the country's next supreme leader.
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Its supporters ranged from hard-core Islamists to members of more traditional religious fraternities, Islamist modernisers, socially conservative businessmen and even secular reformists and Kurds.
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His fiery rhetoric in the final days of the campaign seems intended to whip up support from reformists and remind them of the high stakes.
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Pro-European reformists in Ukraine have previously expressed concern that the latest political reboot will not eliminate the influence of powerful business interests on policymaking.
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His fiery rhetoric in the final days of the campaign was intended to whip up support from reformists and remind them of the high stakes.
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Principlists, otherwise known as hardliners, hold 65 percent of the outgoing parliament and the rest is divided between reformists and independents who traditionally support Rouhani.
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Cops, say some reformists, could still drag alleged drug users into stations to weigh substances, extract bribes, or even plant drugs above any new threshold.
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McNamee speaks often about surveillance capitalism, and credits Zuboff with informing his views and with bringing academic clout to the cause of Silicon Valley reformists.
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The arguments Mendelssohn articulated in his 1783 masterpiece, "Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism," are remarkably similar to the arguments by Muslim reformists today.
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In 2000, after reformists swept the legislature, the unelected Expediency Council ruled that lawmakers could no longer investigate agencies that reported to the supreme leader.
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"Crossing the river by feeling the stones" was how reformists described the process (contrary to common belief, there is no record of Deng having said this).
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Even reformists, who had dismantled Iran's nuclear programme and handed over enough fissile material to build ten nuclear bombs as part of the deal, feel betrayed.
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Though Iranian universities work under boards of trustees, hardliners do not support reformists for the post of science minister who has influence in picking university chancellors.
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Reformists have been promoting Mr. Khomeini, who is 43, as a figurehead of their faction in recent years, and his apparent disqualification is a significant setback.
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"It's totally possible to set up your own group and I believe that European reformists have a vocation to federate around them other movements," he said.
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Hossein Marashi, a reformist politician, told ILNA news agency 3,000 reformists had registered for the election so far but only 30 had seen their candidacies certified.
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Reformists, many of them sitting in the financial camp, are suggesting an evolution to something a bit more, well, conventional, simplifying both trading and fee structure.
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The vote is unlikely to radically change Iran, but reformists and moderates peeling away seats from hard-liners could help Rouhani push through his domestic agenda.
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But with rare exceptions, the reformists stop short of asking the uncomfortable questions: Is it possible to reform profit-driven systems that turn attention into money?
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Iranian reformists and moderates swept the Tehran City Council elections, winning all 21 seats and removing all hard-liners, the Iranian news media reported on Sunday.
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In the parliamentary elections of 2016, reformists and moderates gained a small majority, which they have used to attack problems like corruption that discourage economic initiatives.
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The former general's 50% devaluation of the Egyptian pound in 2016 mirrors a partial currency loosening in 2004 forced through by reformists in Mubarak's own cabinet.
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Reformists, who want a free market and moderate reforms to Iran's system, are broadly supported by intellectuals, the upper middle class, and some big business people.
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But at this stage, I want to encounter nature and a metropolis that, like Spanish and English, Catholics and reformists, are two parts of a whole.
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In this 15th-century turning point, reformists in China see an obvious answer to Needham's question: isolation from the rest of the world is bad for innovation.
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Hossein Shariatmadari, editor-in-chief of Kayhan, a newspaper closely associated with Khamenei, accused reformists of trying to create what he called an "illusion of a victory".
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Reformists welcomed the removal of the bill from parliament's agenda as a win at a time when Ukraine's Western-backed corruption fight faces pushback on several fronts.
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Making clear its preferences, PiS this week welcomed Salvini's old ally, the Brothers of Italy, into its EU group — the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe.
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That has been the pattern since 2000, when reformists won a majority in Parliament, leading to an extended period of political infighting with hard-liners and conservatives.
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He also led the campaign that took the conservative party away from the centre-right parliamentary group EPP to the more eurosceptic European Conservatives and Reformists group.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Influential former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said a failure by reformists in Iranian elections on Friday would be a major loss for the country.
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The reformists and their allies have the modest goal of preventing a principlist victory, or at least lessening their power in the parliament and Assembly of Experts.
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They live in provincial cities, Tehran reformists don't speak for them and they are not the sorts of people connected with the domestic or international news media.
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Mr. Sadeghi and other reformists note that, largely under the radar, Iran has changed a great deal over the years, in some ways resembling many Western societies.
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Parliament will start discussing the bill on April 4, with both left-wing rebels and reformists led by Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron seeking to modify it substantially.
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Many see Iran's conservatives winning Friday's election, but that's more to do with reformists losing favor than hard-liners gaining popularity, a research associate said this week.
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Iranian Vice President Ebtekar says reformists like herself, Mohammad Javad Zarif and Rouhani, have been burned on that front too, by Trump pulling out of the JCPOA.
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This is a point that Avik Roy, one of those young conservative reformists that Brooks admires so much, made forcefully in a conversation with me this July.
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A constant theme of Secor's work is how the clerical regime gave birth to its own opposition, how one generation's radical revolutionaries became the next generation's moderate reformists.
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From the moment Mr. Khomeini emerged as a potential leader of the reformists, he has been attacked by hard-liners for living an existence that is not austere.
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Even if reformists do not emerge with a national majority in the legislature, dominated since 2004 by conservatives, analysts say they will secure a bigger presence than before.
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"We were almost The Last of the Mohicans trying to keep faith in changing the system from within it," Saakashvili said of reformists who had left their jobs.
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She also told me that she believes reformists and ordinary Iranians want a Democrat to win in November, no matter who comes out on top in the primaries.
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In the capital Tehran, officials counting the ballots at three different districts confirmed to The Associated Press that reformists were leading far ahead of their hard-line rivals.
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Reformists stormed to power with the 1997 election of President Mohammad Khatami, followed by 2000 parliamentary elections that brought a reformist majority in parliament for the first time.
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The threat of terrorism has also been used as an excuse to silence critics, while the turbulence of the region is cited to dim the ardour of reformists.
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What has alarmed Ms. Khaleghi and other reformists is that, under the Iranian Constitution, only the Parliament is empowered to review and approve the credentials of new lawmakers.
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It also signals new obstacles for a coalition of reformists and moderates under President Hassan Rouhani who are seeking very modest changes in the Islamic republic, analysts say.
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Reformists and pragmatic centrists had endorsed lists of candidates for Parliament and the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that will most likely select Iran's next supreme leader.
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If Friday sees a large turnout among young people, "that will be good for the reformists," Mehrdad Khadir, editor of the Hope of Youth newspaper, told VICE News.
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Under Mexican law, if four cases related to November's are decided at the supreme court by similar majorities, and go in favor of reformists, it would create jurisprudence.
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It was a remarkable challenge to the Shi'ite Muslim religious judicial authorities, who have blacklisted Khatami from public life for his support for other reformists under house arrest.
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But several reformists said that instead of selecting the ministers personally over the past two months, Mr. Rouhani has been consulting with Mr. Khamenei more than is typical.
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Sunkara's book pores over details of this tension in the past, including debates between reformists and radicals in places ranging from 19th-century Germany to 20th-century America.
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Since the 1979 revolution, Iranian politics has been defined by a split between reformists and principlists, conservatives who say they are devoted to the principles of the revolution.
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In the other election, for the Assembly of Experts, an 88-member council that in theory will choose the next supreme leader, the reformists are also supporting alternative candidates.
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Each decides to make a limited confession to avoid further torments; freed but rejected by other reformists, they work out a plan to break the prosecutor's hold over them.
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Reformists seeking more social and economic freedoms and diplomatic engagement had voiced high hopes of expanding their sway in parliament and easing conservative clerics' grip on the experts' assembly.
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Reformists, who seek more engagement with the West, and moderate conservatives have won a majority in Parliament, and in a clerical council that will choose the next supreme leader.
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In fact the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe was overtaken at the elections in 2014 by the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) as the third-biggest group.
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But after the nuclear deal and the lifting of sanctions, reformists backed by the city's businessmen are attracting packed audiences to their hustings for elections due on 26th February.
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The hostility such rhetoric stoked against the Islamic Republic empowered Iran's conservatives, troubled reformists and journalists, and helped undermine the reform-minded presidency of Mohammad Khatami a decade ago.
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Reformists seeking greater democratic changes and moderates supporting Rouhani appear to be cashing in on the lifting of international sanctions the moderate president achieved under last summer's historic agreement.
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Partial results emerging from about 50 small towns across Iran, show reformists and their moderate allies were leading the vote with moderate conservatives and hard-liners trailing behind them.
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There is at least a chance that rebuilding bridges with Europe may rein in the authoritarian instincts of Mr Erdogan and embolden the few reformists left in his government.
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TEHRAN — A leading conservative was re-elected speaker of Iran's Parliament on Tuesday, denying reformists a post they thought they had earned with a big win in February elections.
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Iran's suspenseful political drama had much of the world cheering the reformists, who always seemed to be on the brink of bringing positive change, but never quite achieved it.
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Some analysts predict that reformists may gradually gain a bigger say in power if they can consolidate their majority and establish a voice in picking the next supreme leader.
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Morale appears higher among reformists, despite the fact that their main parties remain banned after an uprising in 2009, with many prominent figures in jail or under house arrest.
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While some said they would vote for reformists because they seek change and want to block the hardliners, others planned to vote for conservatives out of loyalty to Khamenei.
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"The reformists aren't particularly popular right now, but the conservatives definitely aren't very popular," said Tan Feng Qin of the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore.
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While Soleimani's killing strengthened hard-liners who despise the U.S., the Ukrainian airline tragedy weakened reformists because Rouhani didn't admit that Iran was behind the crash for three days.
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"This means an end to secret meetings by reformists and moderates seeking closer ties with America; from now on we can make decisions much easier and with more coordination."
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But the departure from the cabinet of experienced technocrats, including U.S.-born Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko, who led strategic talks with Western lenders and investors has rattled pro-European reformists.
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The conservatives may have expanded the complex around the shrine of Reza, Shia's eighth imam, but only the reformists can attract the foreign investment the city needs to fill it.
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Reformists and moderate conservatives were leading in parliamentary elections according to early results Saturday, an indication President Hassan Rouhani may face a more friendly house to pursue his domestic agenda.
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READ: Iran elections: Why you should care Results for Tehran province, which is the country's most populous, showed a sweep by reformists and moderates of all its 30 parliamentary seats.
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In one significant result, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Rouhani, both reformists, were in the top two spots for the Assembly of Experts in Tehran as of Saturday afternoon.
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Reformists in China have long argued that the party should be more open about what happened, in order that lessons be learned from the near civil war it led to.
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The reformists, to their own political peril, have been trying to bring about enough reforms to save the status quo, while the democrats are aspiring to gradual but structural changes.
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"With wholesale condemnation of Iran and nuclear deal over past year, Trump Admin squandered opportunity to bolster reformists in Tehran and prospects for peaceful political reform in Iran," Brennan tweeted.
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Reformists and centrists favor greater economic ties with Western countries and, while they want to work within the Islamic Republic's system, they also seek to lift restrictions on political organizing.
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The victories by reformists and moderates in Iran's urban areas also seemed to signal a further weakening of the hard-line conservatives who hold much of the power in Iran.
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Iranians across political factions — both hard-liners and reformists — expressed fury on social media, saying the price increases would only hurt the people and create more loopholes for financial corruption.
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The reformists' list there is led by Mohammad Reza Aref, a Stanford-educated former presidential candidate and minister, who served as vice president to the reformist Khatami in 2001-2005.
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Status quo-ists, meanwhile, suspect that the reformists are at best seeking America's total surrender from the region and at worst trying to engineer a Middle East dominated by our enemies.
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Aside from a handful of reformists, the unionist political class of the right—including both the DUP and the more moderate Ulster Unionist Party—stand in staunch opposition to marriage equality.
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Reformists and moderates are hoping that their increased influence will help Mr. Rouhani enact the modest political changes he has proposed, including fewer restraints on Internet use and more personal freedoms.
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The reformists who used to shake their fists and claim that Islam was on their side now speak about the importance of moving slowly, grateful simply to be out of prison.
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The right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), will decide just ahead of the vote whether to support von der Leyen, but officials say the group is divided over the issue.
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The strong turnout of around 73 percent of eligible voters appeared to have favored Rouhani, whose backers' main concern had been apathy among reformists disappointed with the slow pace of change.
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However, their friendship gradually turned into rivalry as the pragmatist president sided with reformists who promoted freedoms, while Khamenei followed a conservative interpretation of the core values of the Islamic Republic.
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"The U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear accord was a humiliation for the reformists," a prominent journalist and Rouhani supporter told VICE News, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
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In the Tehran metropolitan area, Iran's most populous, only four reformists out of 760 candidates were pronounced qualified to run, one newspaper affiliated with that faction, Arman-e Emrouz, wrote on Monday.
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During the campaign rally, the new leader of the reformists, Mohammad Reza Aref, seemed most concerned with reassuring hard-liners who accuse his movement of opposing the legacy of the 1979 revolution.
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They agonized over whether to remain in the political system, providing such protection as they could to fellow reformists, or to take a more morally pure stand and resort to civil disobedience.
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The reformists, to be clear, don't want to ally with Iran, but rather to minimize hostilities and try to shape Iran's behavior to be more productive, while also building up America's allies.
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The setback comes at a time of growing rivalry between reformists and conservatives stirred by a deal with world powers that lifted economic sanctions against Tehran as part of a nuclear agreement.
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In Odessa, Mr. Saakashvili and a team of young reformists tried to tackle the acceptance of bribes in the corruption-plagued customs service and to make government services more responsive and transparent.
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Inflation reached 87 percent, several banks failed, and Yeltsin and the liberal reformists who dominated Russian policymaking in the mid-20043s suffered a collapse in political support from which they never recovered.
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Though Iran's hard-line political leaders have stacked the electoral deck in their favor by culling reformists from the roster of approved candidates, they are taking no chances that moderates might be elected.
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In the end, the decision was made for them by the Iranian electorate, which lost patience with the divided and disillusioned reformists in favor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a populist allied with the conservatives.
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But the final list of candidates for the Assembly of Experts, published on Wednesday, makes it clear that the Guardian Council intends to keep reformists and moderates away from this crucial clerical body.
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Carr does not expect Le Pen to win, however, and either of the other two candidates are seen as positive for the markets, since they both would be reformists and pro-euro zone.
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Voters may be bewildered when confronted with the People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Front—or with National Liberals, Democratic Liberals and Liberal Reformists, as they were in Romania in 2014.
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In 2010, he helped form the Qatari Youth Rescue movement, bringing together hundreds of reformists residing in Qatar and abroad; he is now, he told me, founding a Qatari Democratic Party in London.
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"But that doesn't mean that Russia is very attractive now and that doesn't mean that they're very good or policy makers or reformists , which is really what investors want to see," Dayan explained.
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WHATEVER image you may have of the reformists hoping to shake up China's creaking economic system, it is probably not one of octogenarians who fiddle with their hearing aids and take afternoon naps.
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TEHRAN, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Iranian reformists won 29 out of the 30 seats reserved for the capital Tehran in parliamentary elections, early results released on Saturday showed, with hardliners winning the single remainder.
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TEHRAN — Minoo Khaleghi easily won a seat in the Iranian Parliament in February, part of a wave of independents and reformists who now have the numbers to wrest authority from the hard-liners.
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They seek to harness the popularity of the reformists to the institutional power of the conservatives, and to define a national interest on which the most temperate elements of both camps can agree.
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"The reformists won't have a strong hand in the Assembly of Experts because Rafsanjani sent a bad signal that the assembly could challenge the leader," Amir Mohebian, a conservative political strategist, told Reuters.
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Looking at election results, they found that the nuclear deal had given reformists and moderates a winning platform to run on: Reformists, who favor expanded social freedoms and engagement with the West, won at least 85 seats, according to final results released by the Interior Ministry and broadcast on state TV. Moderate conservatives — who split with the hard-line camp and support the nuclear deal — won 73, giving the two blocs together a majority over hard-liners in the 290-seat assembly.
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It's the second high-profile move by Krasner in a few weeks, after his office helped secure the release of rapper Meek Mill, whose case became a cause celebré for reformists across the country.
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Eshaq Jahangiri, the vice-president, and Mostafa Hashemitaba, a former Olympic Committee head, are reckoned to be on the ballot only so that the reformists can have equal airtime with their three conservative rivals.
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Mr Xi's policy speech in early April at the annual Bo'ao gathering, China's Davos, will give a powerful clue about whether his inner control-freak will leave any slack in the system for reformists.
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In another setback for reformists, Mr Trump has promised to re-examine the detente begun under his predecessor Barack Obama — although the US president has taken no concrete steps since his election last November.
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DUBAI, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Iran's hardline judiciary chief on Sunday accused reformists of working with Westerners to block hardliners from winning seats in Friday's elections for the Assembly of Experts, an infuential leadership body.
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The internal power struggle in the Islamic Republic is not just a philosophical argument between reformists and hardliners, but a battle to preserve the dominance of a theocratic establishment with vested interests and privileges.
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A more toughly worded comment came from hardline judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Emoli Larijani, who accused reformists of working with "American and English media outlets" to block hardliners from winning seats the experts assembly.
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They have recently elected reformists into the presidency and parliament with the goal of democratizing the system all the way up to the theocratic political posts of the Guardian Council and the Supreme Leader.
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And it has forced reformists on the left — who briefly had hopes for a liberal majority on the Supreme Court, before Mr. Trump's election — to come up with alternative plans for nationwide democratic change.
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"The higher the turnout of eligible voters, the closer the result will be to the demands of the people," Khatami said, referring to past polls when reformists won more seats on a high turnout.
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"If (the conservatives) do well this time in this election, it's not so much that they've suddenly gained popularity but … the reformists and the pragmatists have lost clout because of their performance," he said.
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Mr. Khamenei's allies, a faction sometimes known as radicals or hard-liners, seized the supreme leadership to prevent losing it to another group, such as the reformists who favored easing hostilities with the West.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's officials are reviving the idea of developing oil fields using buy-back deals that international oil companies dislike, suggesting renewed tensions between hardliners and reformists over the future of the industry.
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"At most we will get 30 seats, if we are lucky 40 and if there is a miracle we might reach 50, but that's it," said Farshad Ghorbanpour, a political analyst close to the reformists.
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Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died on Sunday at the age of 82, state media reported, a big blow to moderates and reformists deprived now of their most influential supporter in the Islamic establishment.
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Mr Tajani defeated Mr Pittella only after the EPP struck deals with the Euro-federalist ALDE grouping, led by Guy Verhofstadt, and with the European Conservatives and Reformists, a Eurosceptic outfit dominated by Britain's Conservatives.
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Reformists, those who want to change Iran's political system from the inside, have grown increasingly disenchanted with Rouhani over his inability to end the house arrests of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi.
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"Hardliners recognize Ahmadinejad is the only person that can stand up to the reformists and their candidates," said Saeed Leylaz, a Tehran-based political analyst who worked as an advisor to former President Mohammad Khatami.
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Sadeghi wrote that media outlets affiliated with the Guards were also "working against reformists and the supporters of the government," according to the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) which printed a copy of the letter.
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The conventional wisdom is that it's a dictatorship with democratic characteristics, and that it's riven between hard-liners who want to make it more repressive and militant and reformists who want to make it less.
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In the meantime, the Iranian regime has to this day successfully deceived the West, with the support of the pro-appeasement camp, in depicting an image of IRGC-backed hardliners against so-called moderates/reformists.
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Over the past few months, the council disqualified half of the 14,444 people who declared their candidacy for the 290-seat Parliament — and half of those kicked out of the race were reformists and moderates.
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Thirteen women were elected in the first round of the election on February 26 and four more won seats in a runoff election Friday, adding to the boost of moderates and reformists in the next parliament.
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Thousands of candidates, most of them reformists, were disqualified, assuring they would remain in the minority and limiting President Hassan Rouhani's ability to make promised changes to end the country's isolation and to expand personal liberties.
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Cut off from Telegram, which has been instrumental in allowing reformists to reach their constituencies, Iranian protesters have turned to circumvention tools and VPNs to access information, read about the protests, and communicate with one another.
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But real power still rests with Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a recluse who is supremely distrustful of all things American and closer to the hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps than to the reformists.
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Speaking in the living room of his apartment, its walls stacked high with books and yellowing newspapers, Mr Mao says that his age and experience give him, and the other elderly reformists, a bit of leeway.
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Tehran, Iran (CNN)Preliminary results in Iran's first major election since last year's landmark nuclear deal show reformists poised to take all 230 seats up for grabs in the capital, Tehran, the country's Interior Ministry says.
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But Iranian media reports indicate the Guardian Council, a vetting body made up of clerics and jurists, has disqualified the majority of candidates close to Rouhani and reformists keen to increase freedom of expression in Iran.
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Factional power struggles are endemic in Iran, where hardliners around the Supreme Leader, such as the Revolutionary Guards and the judiciary, face off against the president, and pragmatists and reformists in elected institutions such as parliament.
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"These will be the least competitive parliamentary elections in Iran since 2004 when reformists and incumbents were also disqualified en masse," Barbara Slavin, director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council, told CNBC.
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Reformists and rights activists also say they are alarmed by Raisi's background as a hardline judge, especially during the 1980s when he was one of four judges that imposed death penalties on thousands of political prisoners.
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The comments came amid indications that an influential panel had disqualified hundreds or perhaps thousands of reformists from running in February elections for Parliament or the Assembly of Experts, whose responsibilities include choosing the next supreme leader.
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If you'll forgive a bit of jargon coinage — an ancient and glorious tradition among pundit types — we might term those divisions: pragmatists versus hegemonists, diplomats versus militarists, and Middle East reformists versus Middle East status quo-ists.
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Tehran, Iran (CNN)Early election results in Iran indicate major support for reformists and supporters of President Hassan Rouhani, who signed last year's landmark nuclear deal that limited the country's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
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Backing from the far-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), nationalists from eastern Europe and British members of the European Parliament however could cast doubts on her legitimacy and weaken efforts to maintain the bloc's democratic norms.
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Through my reporting, I met women who had removed the veil, Islamic reformists who were challenging conventional sheikhs, groups of outspoken atheists, and young Muslims turning to mystical Sufism as an alternative to the austere Salafi creed.
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Karimov has been succeeded by his former prime minister, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, and the EBRD's return will encourage reformists who want to modernise the country's $70 billion a year economy, still run largely in the Soviet command style.
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Iran's long-marginalized reformists and moderates, who would use Mr. Rafsanjani's regular calls for more personal freedoms and requests to establish better relations with the United States to advance their political agendas, suddenly felt exposed and weakened.
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In another possible boost to Salvini's plan, Poland's ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS), currently with the mildly eurosceptic European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, said it was ready for talks on an alliance with the League.
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As more ballots are counted, reformists appear to be on the path to expand their presence from the fewer than 20 they currently hold to a majority with the moderate conservatives and reduce the number of hard-liners.
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Anyone who hoped that the signing last July of a nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers would strengthen the hands of the country's reformists at the expense of the religious conservatives is starting to think again.
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"I think Europe would be better off democratically with a redrawing of the political map," he said, adding that he would come up with a new initiative to regroup "progressives" and "reformists" together in EU elections next year.
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Espousing a progressive brand of revolutionary Islamism, she was a staunch ally of reformists and an inspiration to a generation of female politicians who tried to work within the narrow range of tolerated politics in the Islamic Republic.
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It ended in tears as conservatives used the judiciary and the Guardian Council to shut down the free space Khatami had opened, closing newspapers, locking up reformists, vetoing reform bills and denying his supporters access to state media.
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"But, powerful people in the Moon government and the ruling party - they portray themselves as reformists, but they are just the same old politicians that are not listening to the suffering of the low-income class," he said.
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The emergence of alternative outlets has added to fuel to a smoldering debate between reformists and conservatives in the heart of Cuba's communist system about the pace of economic and social change necessary for the system to survive.
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More than 20163,000 candidates, most of them reformists and moderates, including 90 members of the current Iranian Parliament, were disqualified from Friday's elections by the Guardian Council for having insufficient ideological loyalty, a move that reduced voter participation.
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The reformists were a force during the presidential contest of 2009, but the movement was decapitated after its political leaders voiced support for the millions of people who took to the streets to challenge the fairness of the vote.
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He also picked a rare public fight with hardliners close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, angrily criticizing their favorite in the race, Ebrahim Raisi, a judge seen by reformists as representing the security state at its most fearsome.
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The remaining contenders are divided evenly between the so-called principlists — hard-line conservatives who assert strict fealty to the principles of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution — and the so-called reformists, who are seen as more moderate and flexible.
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The reformists tend to be skeptical of America's most powerful Mideast ally, Saudi Arabia, and to suspect that Iran is going to rise in power whether we like or not, so it's better to shape that rise as best we can.
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DUBAI, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Top Iranian pro-reform politician Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in a message two days after elections in which reformists made strong gains, said on Twitter on Sunday that no one could resist the will of the people.
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A deal that promised visa-free travel to the EU for Turkish citizens, in exchange for a range of reforms and a commitment to stem illegal migration to Europe, offered some hope of emboldening the reformists in the Turkish government.
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The 40-year old president, who blew apart France's traditional two-party system last year by propelling his newly-formed centrist movement to power, called for the same alliance of "reformists" to join forces at the European parliament in Strasbourg.
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The fact that reformists -- who have been at the center of most of the large-scale protests in Iran for the past two decades -- appear to be neither driving nor even particularly involved presents a new political phenomenon in Iran.
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Arvand Dashtaray, a liberal-minded theater director, who has frequently injected veiled criticism of Iranian society and its leaders into his plays, now says that he and like-minded reformists and moderates were wrong to bet on the United States.
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By Saturday morning, it appeared that the remains of the Alliance of Hope, which Mr. Mahathir had cobbled together out of disparate political forces — including Malay nationalists, Chinese reformists and liberal Islamists — had coalesced around the nonagenarian ruler yet again.
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Not admitting his part in the creation of those problems may be a way for Mr. Mahathir to reassure Malay communalists — he isn't kowtowing to the Chinese; the bumiputera preferences will remain — but it is already alienating some minorities and reformists.
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"Rouhani and the reformists won a landslide victory in the May presidential elections, yet this detention makes clear the conservatives are still strong and can lash out," said Cliff Kupchan, chairman of the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy in Washington.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan, in a Twitter post, said the Trump administration with its condemnation of Iran and the nuclear deal over the last year has squandered an opportunity to bolster reformists in Iran and promote peaceful political change.
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Reformists see the status quo-ists as trying to build American strategy on a foundation of quicksand, and wonder why they're so eager to embrace Saudi monarchs who behead dissidents and an Israeli right that has long defied American presidents of both parties.
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Ahmad Majidyar, who leads the IranObserved Project at the Middle East Institute, believes that "many reformists are dismayed by the President's unwillingness to stand up to the country's judiciary and security establishment," meaning many may simply not bother to vote at all.
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Two of the top three candidates are viewed as economic reformists, but they are up against Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front candidate whose pledge to put France's EU membership to a referendum could de-stabilise the region's economy for years.
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Two of the top three candidates are viewed as economic reformists, but they are up against Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front candidate whose pledge to put France's EU membership to a referendum could de-stabilize the region's economy for years.
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According to Reza Parchizadeh, an Iranian political theorist and activist living in exile in the United States, the Reformists and the Hardliners are names of convenience, designed to deceive the West into thinking that the factional struggle has policy implications for us.
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In backing such a dealmaker, the reformists hoped that in alliance with moderate conservatives and independents they would be able to block the three main ultra-conservative leaders - Ahmad Jannati, Mohammad Yazdi and Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi - from emerging as Khamenei's successor.
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Some analysts see the arrests of the environmentalists as part of a wider confrontation between reformists and conservatives in the Iranian government on a range of economic and social issues, a rift that grew amid widesporead protests at the beginning of January.
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In this case, Iranians are also striking back at the U.S. Friday's elections pit reformists, who dominate the Parliament and largely support President Hassan Rouhani, against right-wing politicians called "principalists," who favor greater state intervention in the economy and crackdowns on dissenters.
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One of the sites of the jihadists' terror was the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, the founder of both the Islamic revolution and the republic it gave birth to, a figure revered by both conservatives and reformists in Iran's Islamic political structure.
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TEHRTAN, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Iran's election has given the government more credibiltiy and clout, President Hassan Rouhani was quoted as saying by official media on Saturday, after reformists allied to him made gains in a contest for parliament and a leadership body.
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"The competition is over — it's time to open a new chapter in Iran's economic development based on domestic abilities and international opportunities," Rouhani said Saturday according to IRNA news agency, adding that the election has given reformists in the government more credibility and clout.
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He promised to achieve the aims sought by reformists, but without crossing the lines that would provoke a hardline backlash, and heal wounds of the previous presidential election, when mass reformist protests were violently crushed after the disputed the re-election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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After Friday's runoff elections for races that were not decided in the first round of voting in February, the reformists and moderate supporters of Mr. Rouhani hold 122 seats in the 290-member Parliament, and the conservative hard-liners have 84, the state media reported.
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"The activities and approach of the EPP (European People's Party) will more effectively further the prospects of achieving the best possible future for our constituents," Julie Girling and Richard Ashworth said in a statement announcing they had left the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group.
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In a statement, Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said reformists had coordinated with "American and English media outlets" to prevent what he called some servants of the people from entering the assembly, which has the task of selecting the country's most powerful figure, the supreme leader.
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Tape Don't Lie Recent viral videos which show MMA fighters making quick work of kung fu practitioners during organized bouts are a prime example of the still lingering disconnect that Bruce Lee and other martial reformists were trying to illustrate through their more critical viewpoints.
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Their departure would hit the European Conservatives and Reformists, dropping that group from third place to fifth — although parliamentary officials also expect the voting to usher in a major reshuffle of alliances on the floor, making it difficult to forecast group alignments in the new chamber.
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But when the European Commission's draft proposals for digital copyright reform were published last September, they were criticized by tech companies as regressive, and by copyright reformists as a missed opportunity to modernize ill-fitting laws to make them fit for purpose in the internet age.
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"The reformists are more focused on eliminating Mesbah-Yazdi, Jannati and Yazdi from the election than gaining a majority," Amir Mohebian, a conservative Tehran-based political strategist and analyst who has advised top Iranian politicians, wrote in an e-mail, referring to the top conservative candidates.
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Their departure would hit the European Conservatives and Reformists, dropping that group from third place to fifth -- although parliamentary officials also expect the voting to usher in a major reshuffle of alliances on the floor, making it difficult to forecast group alignments in the new chamber.
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Instead, they have been vetted by a Parliament where moderates and reformists achieved a slim majority in 2015 elections, which has opened the floodgates for thousands of candidates in the vote on Friday: lawyers, religious minorities, women's rights activists, bank managers and sports figures, among others.
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Officials say this has widened a rift in the economic team between reformists who want more to be done to appease international investors - such as Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek and Finance Minister Naci Agbal - and populists such as Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli and Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci.
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Yet in a pre-election year it is proving difficult for the government's reformists—such as Emmanuel Macron, the economy minister, who wants bolder deregulation in order to encourage firms to create jobs—to prevail over those who fear upsetting unions and the Socialists' friends on the left.
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Despite sweeping all the seats in the country's most important constituency, Tehran, the reformists could only watch in dismay as the much-despised morality police returned to the streets and as actors and artists began receiving judicial warnings urging them to behave in "Islamic" fashion or face prosecution.
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Haleh Esfandiari, director emeritus of the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center, told me she anticipates that the reformists among the women will push for legislation to improve the status of women, especially in seeking to amend the controversial Family Protection Law that many believe discriminates against women.
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If reformists within the EPRDF prevail in the ongoing power struggle and act with the utmost caution, putting country before an individual or party interest, Ethiopia has a real chance for a transformative change, and the US and all other stakeholders must do all they can to enable them.
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On June 12, the Feres reformists plan to march through Washington, D.C. "It takes somebody bold to say, 'Hey I have nothing to lose and honestly I don't really have anything to gain except making sure I take care of my brothers and sisters in arms,&apos" Mullins tells PEOPLE.
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The results of Iran's first national elections since last year's landmark nuclear deal broadcast Monday on state TV show reformists who favor closer cooperation with the West won at least 85 seats, including all 53 seats in the capital, Tehran, while moderate conservatives won 73 seats, The Associated Press reported.
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The German-speaking Mennonites, who live amid horse-drawn buggies and farmhouses that wouldn't look out of place in rural Ohio or Pennsylvania, trace their origins to 16th-century Protestant reformists who migrated to Russia, the United States, Canada, Belize and Mexico in search of farming opportunities and religious freedom.
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"The biggest achievement of this election is the return of reformists to the ruling system ... so they won't be called seditionists or infiltrators anymore" by hardliners who strongly opposed the nuclear deal, said an editorial in reformist newspaper Mardom-Salari, whose managing editor, Mostafa Kavakebian, won a parliamentary seat in Tehran, according to Reuters.
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Books of The Times Given Iran's recent nuclear deal with the West, the lifting of economic sanctions and political maneuvering before this month's parliamentary elections (in which hard-liners have tried to disqualify large numbers of moderates and reformists from running), Laura Secor's new book about Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution could not be more timely.
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Iran held elections Friday, and while many pro-reform candidates who might support President Hassan Rouhani and his more moderate agenda were disqualified from participating, those who did stand looked poised to start reshaping the country -- as of Monday, reformists looked set to take all 30 seats up for grabs in the capital, Tehran, the country's Interior Ministry says.
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The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and Renaissance (ALDE&R) was projected to win 105 seats, the Greens 67, the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) 61, Europe of Nations and Freedom Group (ENF) 57, the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group (EFDD) 54 and the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left 38.53.
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Suddenly, the Republicans were the wild reformists, coming with axes and dynamite for all the edifices of society and government that America had erected over the last 100 years, while the Democratic Party was the conservative party, which is to say: protective toward institutions, deferential toward established power, defensive around precedent, and deeply concerned that anything other than narrow tinkering at the margins represented a dangerous radicalism.
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With Saddam Hussein overthrown and Kim Jong Un now preparing for a planned meeting in Singapore with Trump, Iran remains the last renegade among former President George W. Bush&aposs grouping of nations opposed to the U.S. For those in Tehran, whether hard-liners, reformists or people simply trying to get by in Iran&aposs worsening economy, it&aposs head-spinning, especially after seeing Trump pull America out of the nuclear deal with world powers.
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Jessica Ramos, a labor organizer and former spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, beat State Senator Jose Peralta, also formerly of the I.D.C. If Democrats can take control of the Senate in November, these reformists can help shape an agenda for Albany that would include legislation that many felt the I.D.C. allowed Republicans to block for years: college aid for immigrant "Dreamers," the strengthening of reproductive rights for women and desperately needed protections for tenants in New York City.
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