IRANIAN MONARCHIC EMIGRATION AS A CRITIC OF THE POLITICAL REGIME OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

ИРАНСКАЯ МОНАРХИЧЕСКАЯ ЭМИГРАЦИЯ КАК КРИТИК ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОГО РЕЖИМА ИСЛАМСКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ИРАН

Kyrchanoff, Maksym (Кирчанов, Максим) ()
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Kyrchanoff, Maksym (Кирчанов, Максим): Voronezh State University

Sotsium i vlast / Society and power, 2022, 37-46

Abstract: Introduction. The author analyzes the features of the ideological confrontation and conflict between Iranian emigrant communities and the political elites of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The position of Iranian emigration is analyzed in the context of the activity of the Pahlavi dynasty representatives. The purpose of the article is to analyze the ideological confrontation between the two projects of Iranian political identities in contexts of criticism of the clerical regime of Iran by representatives of the Iranian political emigration of Pahlavi dynasty. Methods. Methodologically, the article is based on the principles of analyzing intellectual communities with the elements of the universal method of historicism and a comparative approach, which make it possible to identify and systematize the main features of the process of ideological confrontation between the Iranian elites and their critics from the Iranian political monarchist emigration. Scientific novelty of the study. On the one hand, the article analyzes the ideological confrontation between the clerical political regime of Iran and its critics from the communities of monarchical emigration as a state of remote or delayed conflict. On the other hand, the author analyzes this ideological controversy as a conflict not between society and power, but between two versions of political power: if the Iranian regime controls the political discourse in the country in fact, then its monarchist opponents in exile attribute to it symbolic legitimacy and continuity with the tradition of Iranian statehood. Results. The main directions and features of criticism of the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran by Iranian political emigrants of a monarchist orientation are analyzed; features of political ideology are shown; the forecast of the development of the political activity of the Iranian emigration is presented. Conclusions. The author believes that 1) the monarchical Iranian emigration is one of the centers of attraction for emigrants from Iran in Western Europe and North America; 2) the ideologists and theorists of the monarchical emigration are consistent critics of the political regime established in Iran in 1979; 3) criticism of the clerical, anti-secular and undemocratic regime of Tehran, its accusations of violating human rights and freedoms in in the centre of the political doctrine of the Iranian emigration; 4) the political ideal of emigration is a secular and democratic Iran, where rights and freedoms are respected, and religious minorities have equal rights with the Shiite Iranian majority.

Keywords: Iranian emigration; Pahlavi dynasty; criticism of clericalism; elite conflict; symbolic legitimacy; remote (delayed) elite conflict; Iranian Constitution Party - Liberal Democrats (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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