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Abbas Milani

Abbas Milani is co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution and director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. His books include Tales of Two Cities: a Persian memoir (1996), The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the riddle of the Iranian Revolution (2000), and Lost Wisdom: rethinking modernity in Iran (2004).

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Iran's conservative triumph

Iran’s people have elected religious hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by a large margin over ex-president Hashemi Rafsanjani. Whose victory is it, whose defeat? Iranian democrats assess their new predicament, and discuss what to do now.