What Suzanne Maloney thinks about politics
American scholar of Iran, vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution; earlier a member of the US State Department's policy planning staff and author of Iran's Political Economy since the Revolution (2015).
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Suzanne Maloney has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAlso worth remembering that the Islamic Republic has had fractious elite politics since its inception. It’s a feature not a bug. Fierce ideological, institutional & interpersonal competition has shaped Iranian policies but to date hasn’t broken the system itself.