Mark N. Katz
Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics, George Mason University
Mark N. Katz is Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics in Schar School of Policy and Government at the George Mason University
Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics, George Mason University
Mark N. Katz is Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics in Schar School of Policy and Government at the George Mason University
Russia likely views Iran’s mass anti-regime protests with deep unease, but may ultimately adapt just as it did in Syria to preserve influence whether the Islamic Republic survives or a new political order emerges.
The latest wave of protests in Iran once more demonstrated both the depth of popular opposition to the Islamic Republic and the limits of mass mobilization in the absence of a decisive breakdown in the regime’s coercive capacity.
While relations between Moscow and Tehran have generally been good, ties between former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the seemingly perpetual Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are decidedly not.
