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            1 January 2020
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            1. Arwa Ibrahim, “All You Need to Know about Iran's Parliamentary Election,” Al Jazeera, February 21, 2020, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/iran–parliamentary–election–200220144241061.html.

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            4. Andrew Brennan, “Iran Elections 2020: Everything You Need to Know about the Parliamentary Vote,” National, last modified February 21, 2020, https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/iran–election–2020–everything–you–need–to–know–about–the–parliamentary–vote–1.980905.

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            6. Ibid.

            7. Azizi, “Factbox: The Outcome of Iran's 2020 Parliamentary Elections.”

            8. Staff, “Khamenei Tells Iranians Voter Turnout a Religious Duty,” Al–Monitor, February 18, 2020, https://www.al–monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/02/iran–supreme–leader–khamenei–voter–turnout–elections.html.

            9. Azizi, “Factbox: The Outcome of Iran's 2020 Parliamentary Elections.”

            10. Kim Sengupta, “Iran Elections: Hardliners Win Every Seat in Tehran as They Sweep to Crushing Victory,” Independent, February 23, 2020, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle–east/iran–elections–hardliners–victory–tehran–revolutionary–guards–turnout–a9353811.html; and Farnaz Fassihi, “Iran's Stacked Election is Expected to Produce a Hard–Line Parliament,” New York Times, February 20, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/world/middleeast/iran–2020–elections.html.

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            23. Ibid.

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            25. Mohammad Mostafavi—-Dehzooei, “Iran's Economy under Rouhani: Achievements and Obstacles,” The Iran Matters Blog, May 17, 2017, https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/irans–economy–under–rouhani–achievements–and–obstacles.

            26. Ibid.

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            33. “روحانی: اجرای مدل قرنطینه چینی در ووهان، در ایران و هیچ کشور دیگری امکان پذیر نبود / دیروز در تمام استان ها روند شیوع کرونا نزولی بوده / اختصاص ۱۰ میلیارد دلار به کسب و کارهای زیان دیده از کرونا” [“Rouhani : It was not Possible to Implement the Chinese Quarantine Model in Wuhan, by Iran and Any Other Country,”] Entikhab.ir, April 1, 2020, https://www.entekhab.ir/fa/news/539545/.

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            37. Farnaz Fassihi and David Kirkpatrick, “Iran, United by Loss of General, Is Divided over Plane Crash,” New York Times, January 10, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/middleeast/iran–plane–crash–suleimani.html.

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            51. Ibid.

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            53. Ibid.

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            61. For example, a January 2018 University of Maryland poll found that almost 65 percent of Iranians hold a ‘very favourable’ view of Soleimani, 28 percentage points higher than foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and 44 points higher than Rouhani. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this gap in popularity has since widened.

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            71. Ibid.

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