A Harsh Crackdown Is Coming in Iran |
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| Authors: | RAMIN JAHANBEGLOO |
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| Institution: | Iran's best‐known dissidents, headed the contemporary studies department of the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran until his arrest in April, 2006. He was released that August and now lives in exile in Canada, where he teaches at the University of Toronto. |
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| Abstract: | As the US prepares new sanctions to stop Iran form obtaining a nuclear weapon, the partisans of popular sovereignty in the “green movement” continue to battle with the partisans of divine sovereignty fortified by the Revolutionary Guards. What does the “green movement” want? Will the regime be successful in crushing it? Will sanctions only bolster the clerical/military alliance instead weaken it? The first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran and several top reformist scholars address these issues. |
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