Betting on Iran
MILAN, Conference Hall of Palazzo Reale
Normalizing Iran’s relation with the rest of the world is regarded a top priority not just by President Rohani’s administration, but also by the vast majority of Iranians, who – as demonstrated by the results of the parliamentary elections in February 2016 – aspire to better economic conditions and to international recognition of Iran as a legitimate and important global player.
The Mediterranean area, and notably the Maghreb, undoubtedly represent one of Italy’s priority contexts of action.
The conference had the aim of providing updated information about a key player in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, an actor that had proved to exert its influence beyond the regional context.
With the aim of going beyond the recurrent image of the “Arab transition”, this initiative presented a specific analysis of the state of the art and the possible developments in the power balance of the Mediterranean region, concretely dealing with the policies adopted by governments affected by such phenomena on the socio-political, economic and institutional level.