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democracy & iranIran embodies 21st-century world politics: a geriatric, Islamic, post-revolutionary, nuclear state amidst a youthful, idea-hungry, proto-democratic, networked society. Iranians - from Tehran to Los Angeles via Berlin - rethink their country’s identity and future on openDemocracy.
Tehran's factional disputes are rooted in the very character of the regime
Iran’s parliamentary vote highlights enduring flaws in the country's political culture
The conservative "victory" in Iran's parliamentary election looks very different on close inspection
Tehran's clerical-political elite is seeking to entrench its power via a
fresh governing blueprint
A US report raises hard questions about the west's nuclear diplomacy
The
courageous voices of the women of Iran's One Million Signatures campaign demand to be heard
An elite reshuffle in Tehran reveals a shift of strategy
A reshuffle of Tehran's nuclear diplomats spells trouble for the
president
Iran's leading dissident appeals to the UN: support Iranians' quest for freedom
Real peace must be achieved through democracy and respect for human rights writes Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
The internal strife in Tehran and Washington blocks the end of a long feud, says Sanam Vakil
The arrest of an Iranian-American academic reveals the true face of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran, says Rasool Nafisi.
The momentum for dialogue with the United States is growing in unlikely places in Iran, says Nasrin Alavi. Read the rest of this post...
The Sharm al-Sheikh conference to discuss Iraq could prove to be a pivotal event for Iran too, says Omid Memarian. Read the rest of this post...
The Tehran regime’s internal political divisions and personal rivalries are exposed by the crisis over its seizure of British naval personnel, says Nazenin Ansari. Read the rest of this post...
Iran's leadership proclaims its confidence and ambition but it draws power from a western threat that enables it to target and crush grassroots protest, say Andreas Malm & Shora Esmailian. Read the rest of this post...
Iran’s seizure of British military personnel in the contested waters of the Persian Gulf is an instrument both of domestic pressure-politics and foreign-policy leverage, says Sanam Vakil. Read the rest of this post...
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