By Simon Hardy Tue, 23/06/2009 - 21:41 Simon Hardy argues that the street demonstrations need a new strategy to win For a workers and peasants government in Iran Mass protests against election result in Iran - the time has come Over the past two weeks hundreds...
Ali Akbar Rafsanjani
The extraordinary events of “Tehran, June 2009”
June 28, 2009 The morning after Iran’s June 12 presidential election, Iranians booted up their computers to find Fars News, the online mouthpiece of the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus, heralding the dawn of a “third revolution.” Many an ordinary Iranian, and...
Why the Islamic Republic Has Survived
Obituaries for the Islamic Republic of Iran appeared even before it was born. In the hectic months of 1979—before the Islamic Republic had been officially declared—many Iranians as well as foreigners, academics as well as journalists, participants as well as...
Survival Through Dispossession: Privatization of Public Goods in the Islamic Republic
Since the 2005 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the burning economic issue in Iran has been the privatization of public assets and, more recently, the elimination of subsidies for a vast array of goods and services. Leading figures, including the Supreme...
Wishful thinking from Tehran
Since the revolution, academics and pundits have predicted the collapse of the Iranian regime. This week, they did no better guardian.co.uk Saturday 13 June 2009 I have been in Iran for exactly one week covering the 2009 Iranian election carnival. Since I arrived, few...


