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The Women’s Movement: A Model for the Green Movement
Following the 2009 presidential election, many activist women, not all belonging to the women’s movement, were arrested. Some unprecedented verdicts were issued against them and some of them are still serving time for their charges. It seems that the prevailing atmosphere facilitated the harsh treatment against the One Million Signature ...
The Universities are Alive
The student movement makes up a major and vital node of the Green Movement body both in terms of quality and quantity, because it serves as a cross-point for other individual movements such as women, labor, and ethnic group movements. The student movement effectively creates a space for a coalition ...
Economic Sanctions and Transition to Democracy
The impact of Western economic pressure on Iran’s society will not only increase the opportunity to recreate elite cohesion among the country’s extremist currents, but it will also increase the likelihood of oppression and clashes with moderate forces, and the definite failure of sanctions will prepare the foundation for a ...
A History of the Workers Movement In Iran
In spite of the support of international institutions, and the attempts of workers’ unions to mobilize, there is no institutionalized coherence among workers’ groups and associations. This lack of robust coherence is due to paradoxes that exist in workers’ behavior and activities. The attraction of party-creation, and the disconnect between ...
Supreme Cultural Revolution Council
The Supreme Cultural Revolution Council has ruled without legal authorization for a long time—this is not new. What is new is the infighting among the elite as they attack one another. The grievances are old and worn and if we choose the revolution as a marker of time, then the ...
The Condition of Iran’s Working Class
The regime of the Islamic Republic has weakened the labor force and any labor movement during the last 31 years through its incorrect economic policies, labor laws, and obstruction of the formation of labor organizations. On the other hand, the absence of awareness among this class, that does not know ...
The Green Movement’s Mission in the Face of Sanctions
Given the concerns of the international community, the democratic movement in Iran cannot expect world leaders to desist from placing new sanctions on Iran or to lift previous sanctions. Rather, in line with its own interest and the interests of Iran, the Green movement must attempt to raise awareness among ...
The West’s Moral Corruption: Another Great Lie
For more than one hundred years, the Shia clergy has viewed individual and civil freedoms in western societies as signs of corruption and irreligiosity.In its century-old quest for seizing political power and monopolizing social privilege, the Shiite clergy has reduced all ethical beliefs and values to its own juridical knowledge. ...
Thirty Years of Purging Dissident Academics
In 1980, a Persian New Year’s message by Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the newly victorious Iranian revolution, marked the start of a new chapter of state control over Iran’s universities. Every word of the message promoted the vision that the country’s newly-empowered revolutionaries had for the universities: “There will ...
Execution of Afghans in Iran
With the then Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan began the flood of Afghans into neighboring countries, in particular, Iran, where the number of Afghan refugees/immigrants reached 3 million. Following the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Iranian government was seeking to repatriate these immigrants. It seems, however, that in ...
Theatre, A Response to a Need
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Attacks on Academic Freedom in Iran
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Torture, Neglect, and Death
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