Speech before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on February 15, 2000 Robin Wright Los Angeles Times Correspondent and Author, The Last Great Revolution “Turmoil and Transformation in Iran” Thank you very much. There’s a special irony in that here I am, a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and I’ve been to the city four […]
THE LAST GREAT REVOLUTION Turmoil and Transformation in Iran By: Robin Wright These are exciting times in Iran. As the revolution enters its fourth decade, the Islamic regime is under attack from without and within. Iran’s youthful population is restive. A reform-minded President Mohammad Khatami is battling to make the system more open and accountable. […]
Magazine: Foreign Affairs Issue: January/February 2000 (volume 79, number 1) Author:Robin Wright PROMISES, PROMISES A generation after it seized power, Iran’s revolutionary regime is deeply troubled: fractured by intense political divisions, endangered by economic disorder, discredited by rampant corruption, and smothered in social restrictions no longer acceptable to large sectors of its changing population. To the […]
An interview with Soroush, Published in Zanan, 1378/2000 Q. New religious thinking in our society has remained consistently silent on women’s issues. There may be a number of reasons for this silence: it may be that some of the thinkers involved feel that there’s no such thing as women-specific issues; or that women’s problems […]
