The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles.
Protests over high prices and the poor state of the economy under President Hassan Rouhani. Dorud, Lorestan Province, Iran, Dec. 30, 2017. SalamPix/ Press Association. All rights reserved.
Iran is the illustration of this paradox: at the precise moment when western analysts have noted, half disillusioned, half-astonished, the success of its foreign policy (in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq ...) it is at home that the protest has broken out. The country is going through a period of turbulence whose nature is very different from those of the past.
