Iran is preparing for the June presidential elections and its situation seems to be increasingly complex. While the international community still has many doubts about the country’s nuclear programme and many believe a compromise is out of reach, inside a country harshly affected by sanctions, civil society suffers ad would like to see change that is not coming. Centre stage is taken up by disagreements Ahmadinejad and the Supreme Guide, which are becoming increasingly conflicting, while reformists are excluded from the main political debate.