Making Sense of What Happened in Iran
A political movement with political aims.
January 24, 2018
A political movement with political aims.
The recent anti-government protests in Iran hardly amounted to a revolution, but they were certainly not instances of “conspiracy” or “sedition,” as the mullahs tried to label them; nor were they merely economic, as former Obama-administration officials insisted. Rather, writes Amir Taheri, they were an expression of fundamental political discontent with the regime itself:
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Vladimir Putin’s dream come true.
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