Iran’s Protesters Are Secularizing The 1979 Revolution
What we see happening in Iran is the emergence of a new discourse that combines old traditions and new ideas that will strengthen a home-grown
What we see happening in Iran is the emergence of a new discourse that combines old traditions and new ideas that will strengthen a home-grown
A permanent state of crisis has intersected with the Supreme leader’s actions to create conditions for the emergence of a new ‘post-reformist’ conjuncture. Could this
“The U.S. mainstream media avoids the word ‘coup’ when a disfavored leader is ousted, but the silence around Iran’s 1981 coup also may have served Ronald
Parastou Foruhar, daughter of Dariush and Parvaneh Foruhar, cried when she found the name of Ayatollah Omid Najaf Abadi on the list of “Reformists” running
In a recent interview with Radio Asre Jadid aired on Friday, Abolhassan Banisadr scrutinized the Vienna agreement and concluded that by signing it Khamenei has
It is nearly 50 years since Abolhassn Banisadr began to develop his revolutionary interpretation of Islam, releasing it from the various discourses of power that
Fly, flight, plight, despair, frozen tears, frozen anger, forgotten wish, forgotten dream, forgotten tears melted anger, dried tears, running tears, frozen dream. Human born out
Something similar happened in Syria. First there were peaceful protests against the oppressive dictatorship (although in Ukraine the president is democratically elected). The regime used violence to suppress
The Iranian Revolution 35 years ago has two conflicting impulses exemplified by what could be called the legacy of “the two Khomeini’s” — the democrat
In Iran, the transformation of the nuclear issue into a nuclear crisis brought the country to the edge of war and led to the leveraging
How many of us know that Khamenei is a counterfeit leader? This information has been available for more than twenty years. Why, then, has the
Around three years ago, Iran’s supreme leader, Khamenei, traveled to Kermanshah, Iran’s Kurdish region. He delivered a speech at the city’s university, Razi, where a
‘Mandela joined the people who are making history and participates with future generations in doing so.’ On 5 December, Nelson Mandela returned to life and
The main function of elections in democracies is to enable the exercise of the people’s authority over the power of the state by establishing a
Seyd Hussein Navab Safavi was a young Iranian intellectual and a close advisor of Iran’s first president, A.H. Banisadr. Now, more than thirty years after