Farhang Jahanpour

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.

Iran’s unresolved conflict between reformers and fundamentalists

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

By Farhang Jahanpour

/ 11 Nov 2014

Iran: what happened, where now?

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.

By Farhang Jahanpour

/ 16 Feb 2010

Iran's stolen election, and what comes next

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

By Farhang Jahanpour

/ 18 Jun 2009

Cartoons, caricatures and civilisations

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

By Farhang Jahanpour

/ 23 Feb 2006