Archive for December, 2011

Soroush to Khamenei: You Must Accept Criticism so that We can Move towards National Reconciliation

By • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Works On Soroush

Abdulkarim Soroush, a religious thinker and a critic of the Iranian state, has written an open letter to the Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, advising him to begin accepting criticism so that Iranians can move towards national reconciliation, civic life and modernity. Dr Soroush, who has had to live outside Iran for years and lectures […]


You Have Turned Iran into a Grim Land

By • Dec 22nd, 2011 • Category: Works By Soroush

A letter from Soroush to Khamenei   Mohammad Nourizad, the brave and free-minded artist, who has opened the way to critical admonitions and admonitory criticism, has invited writers and thinkers to join him; to perform their duty of enjoining virtue and opposing vice; and to do their share in reinforcing the criticism in the hope […]


Islam: Reform and Revival

By • Dec 8th, 2011 • Category: News

The Crust and the Core of Rule by the People

By • Dec 1st, 2011 • Category: Works By Soroush

A wretched judiciary is tyranny’s strength and a strong judiciary makes for wretched tyrants, and today the weakest and most wretched branch of power in Iran is the judiciary. Today, in democratic states, the most unprotected of people find some protection in the law and the judiciary, which lends them a hand to fend off […]