Parvaneh Vahidmanesh
Editor’s Note: The following article is based upon interviews conducted with Iranians living inside Iran, but written by an author outside the country. The names stated in the article are pseudonyms in order to protect the safety of those interviewed.
Behnam Gholipour
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei seems to believe the Islamic Republic of Iran is more isolated in the world than ever.
Reza H. Akbari
The Coordination Council of the Green Path of Hope, the political council close to Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the opposition leaders in Iran, released a new statement calling the upcoming Iranian parliamentary elections a political “show.”
Editor’s note: InsideIran’s Reza H. Akbari interviewed Hossein Askari, the Iran Professor of International Business and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of books on the Iranian and other Middle Eastern economies.
Hossein Alizadeh
As Iranians approach parliamentary elections in early March, it appears a crisis of participation will be more of a problem than ever. In the past, the Iranian diaspora community living abroad called for an election boycott. However, for the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic, the leaders of the reformists within the regime, including Mohammad Khatami, Mehdi Karroubi, and Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha, the secretary general of the reformist Association of Combatant Clerics are emphasizing the ineffectiveness of participation in the polls.
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