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  • SOURCE: The Atlantic
    10/4/2022

    Why the Iranian Revolution Turned So Repressive

    by Shadi Hamid

    The Iranian revolution consolidated its power, and committed itself to a path of repression, through a fusion of clerical and state power that was unprecedented in the Islamic world. 

  • SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
    9/26/2022

    After Four Decades, Iranian Women's Frustrations are Erupting

    by Kelly J. Shannon

    Since the 1990s, Iranian women have been engaged in slowly escalating protest against the restrictions imposed by the Islamic Republic. Have those protests become too large and too public to be contained? 

  • 2/6/2022

    Attacking Iran would be a Catastrophic Mistake for Israel

    by Alon Ben-Meir

    Regardless of a success or failure to reach a new agreement with Iran, Israel must not attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and must work closely with the US to develop a joint strategy to curb Iran’s ambition to acquire nuclear weapons and potentially end the conflict with Iran on a more permanent basis.

  • SOURCE: Boston Globe
    5/27/2021

    My Son Was Killed In Iraq 14 Years Ago — Who’s Responsible?

    by Andrew Bacevich

    "Even today, the electorate shows little inclination to rethink the core assumptions informing basic US national security policy. Supporting the troops means suppressing second thoughts, asking few questions, and shoveling more money to the Pentagon."

  • SOURCE: The Atlantic
    3/17/2021

    The Princeton Historian Mugged by Reality

    Xiyue Wang was released from an Iranian prison in 2019 after being detained for four months. The Princeton doctoral student is now a critic of softening American sanctions aginst Iran. 

  • SOURCE: TomDispatch
    5/19/2020

    Fundamentalist Pandemics

    by Juan Cole

    What evangelicals could learn from "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam."

  • SOURCE: Boston Review
    3/26/2020

    Sanctions Are Inhumane—Now, and Always

    by Aslı U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

    In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.

  • SOURCE: Al Jazeera
    2/11/20

    America held hostage

    by David Marks

    Forty years after the Iran hostage crisis, its impact endures.

  • SOURCE: Madman of Chu
    1/19/20

    Imagining an Iranian Spring

    by Andrew Meyer

    The recent brush with war between the US and Iran underscores the persistent question of US-Iranian relations: will the two countries ever reach a point of mutual toleration ever again?

  • 1/16/20

    Stepping Back From the Brink of War

    by Alon Ben-Meir

    Trump’s order to kill General Soleimani is one of the most reckless acts taken by a president, who once again has put his personal political interest above the nation’s security.