title: Iran’s Political Elite: Main Problems and Internal Conflicts
abstract: The article is devoted to the study of the structure of the Iranian political elite and of the contours of a new intra-elite balance that may arise after the departure of Ali Khamenei from the post of supreme leader. The author tries to identify those problems and challenges that threatens the structure of the socio-political system of the Islamic Republic in the current turbulent period, when, on the one hand, the global economic crisis is growing, and on the other hand, the Yalta-Potsdam syste
journal: Oriental Courier