The conservative discourse and hegemonic failure of the reform discourse in Iran

Abstract

When Mohammad khatami’s discourse of reform in Iran gave the political field to its anti discourse of
conservative with the leadership of Mohammad Ahmadi Nejad after 8 years, several factors were recognized as
the cause of failure of this discourse among which software and hardware power of conservatives were the
most influential factors. In addition to criticizing the aforementioned minimalizing approach, the present study
believes that no put-aside discourse can dislocate the dominant discourse unless the bearers and agents of the
dominant discourse do not observe the rules of the game and make mistakes. Therefore, the essential
hypothesis of this study is that increasing the power of conservatives by means of the mistakes of reformists
led to dislocation of the reform discourse.
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