Iran at the Crossroads |
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| Authors: | ABOLHASSAN BANI-SADR |
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| Affiliation: | First president of Iran after the 1979 revolution. He now lives in exile outside Paris. This article was written exclusively for NPQ;'s weekly Global Viewpoint column. |
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| Abstract: | As the confrontation between the West and Iran over uranium enrichment comes to a head, the internal confrontation in Iran between the partisans of divine sovereignty, allied with the Revolutionary Guard, and popular sovereignty continues to simmer.
In this section, the first president of the Islamic Republic, a leading cleric of the opposition, the Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi and a former British intelligence agent ponder what lies ahead. |
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