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A Foreign Policy Event

The Scouting Report: Iran's Presidential Election

Iran, Elections, Politics


Event Summary

In what has become a referendum on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's leadership, Iranians will head to the polls on June 12 for the Iranian presidential election.

The Scouting Report

Event Information

When

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
12:30 PM to 01:30 PM

Where

Online Only
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
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Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

E-mail: events@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6105

As the elections approach, President Obama says that he is prepared to work with Iran, but that the nation must not pursue nuclear weapons. The outcome will have major implications for U.S.-Iran relations.

To examine the outlook for and implications of Iran’s elections, Brookings expert Suzanne Maloney and Senior Politico Editor Fred Barbash took questions in this week’s edition of the Scouting Report, Wednesday, June 10 at 12:30 PM.

Transcript

Fred Barbash-Moderator: Welcome all. Our guest today is Suzanne Maloney, who will take questions about the upcoming Iranian election. Welcome Suzanne.

Let me start off by asking you just to bring us up to date on developments in the election campaign. The status of the "horse race," if you will.

12:31 Suzanne Maloney: The candidates are the current president, the notorious Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; a former prime minister of Iran, Mir Husayn Musavi who is one of the leading reformists; a former parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karrubi, who believes the 2005 election was stolen from him; and the former head of the revolutionary guards and only other conservative in the race, Mohsen Rezai.

Participants

Moderator

Fred Barbash

Senior Editor
Politico


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