جریان سوم
Jeryan-e sevvom means third stream, a label various Iranian politicians have used to claim a position outside the reformist-conservative binary.
Glossary
رئیسی
Ebrahim Raisi was president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash on 19 May 2024. He served on the 1988 Death Commission.
پزشکیان
Masoud Pezeshkian has been president of Iran since July 2024, a Tabriz heart surgeon elected on a 40 percent turnout after Raisi’s death.
دلواپس
Delvapas means the worried ones, a mocking nickname reformists pinned on hardliners panicking over the 2015 nuclear deal.
اعتدال گرا
Etedal-gera means moderate, the centrist camp that elected Hassan Rouhani in 2013 on a nuclear-diplomacy platform and lost most of its leverage by 2021.
اصول گرا
Osul-gera means principle-ist, the conservative-hardliner camp that dominates the parliament, judiciary, and Guardian Council and elected Raisi in 2021.
اصلاح طلب
Eslahtalab means reformist, the political camp that won the presidency under Khatami in 1997 and has been systematically marginalized since.
سازمان بسیج مستضعفین
Sazman-e Basij-e Mostaz’afin is the headquarters of the Basij paramilitary, founded 1979 and mobilized to suppress every major Iranian protest since.
حوزه هنری
Hozeh Honari is the regime’s cultural production arm, founded 1980 to fund approved cinema, theater, and music and to censor what does not fit.
جام جم
Jam-e Jam is the flagship daily newspaper of Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB, founded 1995 to extend regime narrative from screen to print.