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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.
Twenty-one top scholars, experts and diplomats say: end the myths about Tehran, and open doors
A consumerist economy renders politics silent. But Iranians keep their surprises close
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...
Iran's nuclear militancy is symptom not cause of the wider conflict in the region
The claim of rights by women in modern Iran builds on the pioneering work of earlier generations, reports Nasrin Alavi
The key to understanding Iran's contemporary role in the middle east is less its millennia of statehood or its Shi'a identity than its political dynamic as a revolutionary state, says Fred Halliday. Read the rest of this post...
A United States military assault on Iran will fortify not undermine the mullahs' regime, says Nasrin Alavi. Read the rest of this post...
Tehran’s nuclear programme, regional profile and economic woes have put its regime in a corner. Sanam Vakil suggests a way out. Read the rest of this post...
The word on the street in Tehran is bad news for Iran's president, finds Kamin Mohammadi. Read the rest of this post...
Iran's enigmatic supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is manoeuvring behind the scenes to take power from the country’s maverick president, say Ali Afshari & H Graham Underwood Read the rest of this post...
The Iranian president’s reaction to his election defeat is combining with a more assertive United States policy towards Iran to make early 2007 a moment of great regional danger, say Dariush Zahedi & Omid Memarian. Read the rest of this post...
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