Rasool Nafisi

Rasool Nafisi teaches the sociology of development at Strayer University in Virginia. He contributes to various news agencies, including the Voice of America, BBC, and Radio France International. His website is here.

Iran, sanctions and war: fuel of crisis

The international sanctions on Iran reinforce conservative rule. The threat of a military attack by the United States or Israel offers no aid to democratic advance. The result is a standoff on the edge of escalation, says Rasool Nafisi.

By Rasool Nafisi

/ 13 Sep 2010

Iran: revolution beyond caricature

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, made a significant remark in his speech on 3 August 2009 that both endorsed and inaugurated the second term of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,

By Rasool Nafisi

/ 7 Aug 2009

Iran’s majlis elections: the hidden dynamics

The result of the elections for the eighth majlis (parliament) in Iran on 14 March 2008 was on the surface predictable, with conservatives winning around two-thirds of the seats and

By Rasool Nafisi

/ 11 Apr 2008

Haleh Esfandiari: Iran's cultural prison

The detention of Haleh Esfandiari, a senior Iranian scholar based in the United States who had returned to Iran to visit her elderly mother and to touch the roots of

By Rasool Nafisi

/ 16 May 2007

Ramin Jahanbegloo: a repressive release

The Iranian intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo, detained at Tehran airport on 27 April 2006 and held for more than four months in prison, was released on bail on 30 August. The

By Rasool Nafisi

/ 31 Aug 2006

The meaning of Ramin Jahanbegloos arrest

On 27 April 2006, the Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo experienced what is coming to be commonplace for many Iranian intellectuals and political activists. In Tehran's Mehrabad airport, on

By Rasool Nafisi

/ 15 May 2006

Rasool Nafisi

Iran, sanctions and war: fuel of crisis

Iran: revolution beyond caricature

Iran’s majlis elections: the hidden dynamics

Haleh Esfandiari: Iran's cultural prison

Ramin Jahanbegloo: a repressive release

The meaning of Ramin Jahanbegloo&#146;s arrest

The meaning of Ramin Jahanbegloos arrest