The Role and Power of Tehran’s Mayor on Paper and in Practice by Sarah Faraj, Marjan Sharafi

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The role and position of the mayor in good urban governance (Case study in Tehran) by Mehdi Shabannia Mansour, peiman mohammadi almani

“…After the T-test, the significance level (sig), the indicators of efficiency, transparency, core consensus are equal to 0.055, and in the indicators of participation, accountability, legality, justice, and strategic insight, it was found to be 0.000; also the sig is less than 0.05, and the correlation coefficient is also positive; consequently, these findings indicate that the mayor of Tehran metropolitan area did not receive a score in all of the above indicators. …”
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Duality of Revolutionary and State-Building in the Islamic Republic; with Emphasis on the Ninth and Tenth States by Reza Nasiri Hamed, Sarouye Mazhabi

“…They were the result of an organization known as the "Coordinating Council of the Islamic Revolution Forces" which was influenced by two fundamentalist organizations "The Party of Islamic Revolution Martyrs" and "Islamic Society of Engineers" and finally Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as one of the activists of these two currents as the mayor of Tehran Selected. During the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa around 2011 onwards, Ahmadinejad used the term "human awakening" instead of the term "Islamic awakening" and tried to explain this phenomenon beyond a mere issue related to Muslims and Islam. …”
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