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Bahman Kalbasi

Bahman Kalbasi was born in 1979. As a member of the Isfahan University student association, he was imprisoned for sixty-three days by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran following the student unrest in July 1999. He is now a student at York University, Toronto.

Recent articles


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.

Referendum or election?

The referendum strategy for transforming Iran is tangled in contradictions, argues Bahman Kalbasi.