Afshin Molavi

Afshin Molavi is the author of Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran (WW Norton, 2002). He has reported on Iran for the Washington Post and Reuters, and is currently a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington.

Iran: an afternoon with a hostage-taker

Just before embarking on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Mohammad Mossadeq, I decided to pay a visit to Mohsen Mirdamadi, a one-time student firebrand who led the 1979 hostage-taking

By Afshin Molavi

/ 10 Nov 2005

An Islamic Republic? Yes or No!

The bearded thug clenched a heavy wooden stick, occasionally waving it in the air as he surveyed a small group of protesters. It was 2003 and the assembled crowd a

By Afshin Molavi

/ 11 Apr 2005