Рассмотрена политическая борьба в Иране в связи с президентскими выборами 2017 г., противо- стояниемразличныхсилпослевыборов,экономическойситуациейвстране.Внимание уделено последствиям колебаний мировых цен на энергоресурсы, сохранения санкций и угрозы их ужесточения, вовлеченности в региональные конфликты. Показаны причины вспыхнувших в конце 2017г. протестных акций.
Stormy events in Iran. Before and after the presidential elections of the 2017.
The research provides a review the difficulties of the situation development in Iran triggered by the political struggle during the 2017 presidential elections, as well as by the confrontation of the various political forces and by the country’s economic development issues. The great deal of the attention in the article is given towards the most sensitive issues currently affecting the development of the Islamic Republic of Iran: global oil price trends, sanctions regime (and threat of their potential tightening), and involvement in regional conflicts. The author further makes a conclusion that the complex of both internal and external problems lay behind protest actions taken place in Iran in the very end of the2017.