{"id":5305,"date":"2017-05-18T07:37:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T11:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csids\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2017-05-18T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T11:38:08","slug":"thomas-juneau-outlines-5-must-knows-about-the-elections-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csids\/2017\/thomas-juneau-outlines-5-must-knows-about-the-elections-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Juneau outlines 5 must &#8220;knows&#8221; about the elections in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranians are going to the polls to elect a president this Friday. To some extent, it does not matter who wins: The Iranian president is subordinate to the Supreme Leader, who has final say on all important matters of state. As such, we should not expect significant changes in Iran\u2019s foreign and domestic policies whoever wins. Iranian presidential elections are in many ways typical of the complex hybrid structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran. <a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2017\/05\/iran-is-holding-presidential-elections-here-are-four-things-to-know\/\">They are by no means fully free and fair, but there is an element of competition and they do follow certain patterns<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranians are going to the polls to elect a president this Friday. To some extent, it does not matter who wins: The Iranian president is subordinate to the Supreme Leader, who has final say on all important matters of state. As such, we should not expect significant changes in Iran\u2019s foreign and domestic policies whoever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thomas Juneau outlines 5 must &quot;knows&quot; about the elections in Iran - Centre for Security, Intelligence and Defence Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iranians are going to the polls to elect a president this Friday. 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