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.
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.
Following the storming of the British Embassy compounds in Tehran, InsideIran’s Reza Akbari conducted an interview with Hossein Alizadeh, the former Iranian charge d’affaires at the Iranian embassy in Finland. He resigned after the contested 2009 presidential election.
Reza H. Akbari and Geneive Abdo
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on CNN.
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, one of the greatest failures of the country’s leadership has been the inability to make a promised transition from a monarchy to republican rule. In fact, since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei began his tenure as Supreme Leader twenty-two years ago, he has centralized power further in his own hands, creating what can be called a clerical monarchy.
Editor’s note: InsideIran interviewed Riccardo Redaelli, Associate Professor of Geopolitics at the Catholic University of Milano and Associate Senior Researcher at the LNCV and Michele Gaietta, Ph.D. candidate at the Catholic University of Milano.
Q: The IAEA says Iran is now significantly closer to weaponizaton and has nuclear capability. Should the regime decide to pursue this option? Do you agree with this assessment? more»
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