Majid Mohammadi
Iranian officials have always claimed that they are to make the people’s world and afterworld flourish and they are the only one who are able to so. They have used every opportunity to show this authoritarian and totalitarian spiritualism and care for life after death. One example is their position ...
The Islamic regime in Iran is now on a path to demise and it is time to discuss the arguments for and against its survival. Every observant of Iran’s political developments may weigh these arguments with considering the advantages and disadvantages of this demise. There have been some letters (`Ezzatullah ...
The Green Movement has reshaped the Iranian political factions both inside and outside the country. After one year of ongoing protests by Green Movement activists, it is now clear that there are two different tendencies both inside the country and abroad. One section of the movement pursues its goals within ...
The Iranian authoritarian factions’ media policy is to keep the Green Movement’s leaders silent and to strip them of the public’s trust. The main strategy is to discredit them by showing the double standards or hypocrisy in the leaders’ actions and statements. The ideological and intellectual developments in the leaders’ ...
Initially, the chief objective of these proposals appears to be to consult the youth and guide them in choosing the right spouse in order to decrease the likelihood of divorce. These proposals, however, seek other goals. The major goal of the proposal is to exclusively allow families who share the ...
One who is not aware of the Iranian history in the last three decades, and reads Mirhossein Musavi's statements, will see only Musavi and Ahmadinejad confronting each other while the leader takes side with the latter. In his eighteen statements issued so far, Musavi has presumed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's ...
The Green Movement activists are breathing in a post-ideology era and do not seek a charismatic leader. Looking for democracy and human rights, they have flexible strategies to reach these goals. After the crackdowns of June and July of 2009, the movement lacks field organizers and leaders; in this situation, ...
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. ...
The reported interviews and the statements issued by the Green Movement’s leaders within Iran, and statements which have been made by the Islamic regime’s critics and adversaries abroad show two major tendencies: Islamist and secularist. Both tendencies can be observed inside and outside the country. There are religious and non-religious ...
As a consequence of society’s closed atmosphere, the Iranian regime has created numerous myths in the last three decades by denying or manipulating the truth and the evidence. None of the above processes have been materialized in Iranian society because the regime fears that an atmosphere of inquiry and criticism ...
About author
Majid Mohammadi
is a visiting scholar at Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies. Before joining SBIGS in 2009, Mohammadi was an associate professor at Glenville State College, a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and an International Policy Fellow at the Open Society Institute. Before moving to the U.S. in 2000, he worked in workshops to draft legislations. He also taught college courses on politics, media and religion, and was a consultant with a number of press centers, public institutions, and research centers in Iran. He has been granted dozens of research funds and is the author of several books, including Heaven’s Ladder: Analytic Philosophy of Religion; Political Reforms Quandary in Iran Today; Introduction to Sociology and Economics of Culture in Iran Today; Authoritarian Face: Iranian TV, 1990-2000; Civil Society: Iranian Style; Religion vs. Faith; and Sacred vs. Secular: Islamicization Process in Iran. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies, Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies, Nameh-ye Farhang, Rasaneh, Farhang, Honar haye Ziba, Farabi, Pajoohesh Nameh, Nameh-ye Pajoohesh, and Rahyaft. Mohammadi received his B.S. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Shiraz University in 1984 and his M.A. in Philosophy from Tehran University in 1990. He completed his Ph. D. in Sociology in 2006.
