Farhang Jahanpour, a British national of Iranian origins, is a former professor and dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan, and a part-time tutor in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford.
Either the Islamic Republic wishes to remain in its fundamentalist cocoon and alienate more educated, westward-looking young Iranians, as well as be regarded as a pariah by the international community, or it wishes to join the modern world
Tehran’s rulers have pushed back the protest-wave that followed the fraudulent election of June 2009. But the achievement of Iran’s opposition movement is already immense - and it now faces the regime with a fundamental choice, says Farhang Jahanpour.
The great events unfolding in Iran have some way to go before they reach a form of resolution. It is already being said that the wave of protests taking place
The controversy over the publication of twelve caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten and reprinted in a number of other European newspapers shows no sign of