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Thursday 15 March 2007
- What Was Once a Revolutionary Guard Is Now Just a Mafia - Opinion : The Forward Mohsen Sazegara | Fri. Mar 16, 2007 Back in October 1978, none of us in exile with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini imagined that victory for the Islamic Revolution would be attained only a few months later. It...
Saturday 24 June 2006
- An Open Letter to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad By Mohsen Sazegara - On May 13, 2006, Mohsen Sazegara wrote an open letter to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in response to Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush earlier that month. Mohsen Sazegara is a visiting associate professor at Yale University’s Center for International and...
Thursday 6 April 2006
- Policy Focus #54 The Point of No Return: Iran's Path to Democracy - http://www.sazegara.net/docs/PolicyFocus54.pdfTo download the PDF file, right click on the link above and choose Save Target As...Format: PDF, 37 PagesPublished: April 2006File Size: 883 KB Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian society has been transformed. Urbanism, literacy, industrial growth, international contact, and...
Tuesday 8 November 2005
- PolicyWatch #1044 Supreme Leader Khamenei’s Responsibility for Iran’s Present Situation By Mohsen Sazegara November 7, 2005 - Mohsen Sazegara, recently a visiting fellow at The Washington Institute and now at Yale University, posted on several Persian-language websites (including gooya.com) a long open letter to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Hossein Khamenei. Below are translated extracts from that...
Thursday 11 August 2005
- PolicyWatch #1022 Challenges Facing Iran’s New Government By Mehdi Khalaji and Mohsen Sazegara August 11, 2005 - Iran’s bold August 7 decision to resume uranium conversion—previously frozen under an agreement with Britain, France, and Germany—came only four days after new president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office. This confrontational step suggests that the new administration may take strong actions...
Friday 15 July 2005
- PolicyWatch #1013 The New Iranian Government: Resurrecting Past Errors By Mohsen Sazegara July 15, 2005 - On June 29, 2005, Iran’s Guardian Council confirmed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as winner of the June 24 presidential election, as dictated by Iran’s constitution and in accordance with the wishes of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He will take office on August...
Saturday 25 June 2005
- PolicyWatch #1006 The Equation of Fear mohsen sazegara washington institue June 24, 2005 - Once again the Iranian nation is at a fork in the road: a choice between worse and worst. It is not clear when it will have the possibility of choosing, under a democratic structure, between better and best. A problematic...
Thursday 16 June 2005
- Iran 9th Presidential Election - Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran has gone through three distinct political stages. The first stage, which began with the victory of the revolution and ended with the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was a period in which the revolutionary...
Friday 10 June 2005
- Iran’s road to democracy 11- 4- 2005 this article is published in open democracy - For an introduction to openDemocracy’s debate among Iranians on the future of Iran, see David Hayes’s “Iran between revolution and democracy” A quarter-century has passed in Iran since the revolution of February 1979. This can be called the period of...
Thursday 2 June 2005
- Iran : Toward a fourth republic? Featuring Mohsen Sazegara June 2, 2005 PolicyWatch - On May 25, 2005, Mohsen Sazegara addressed The Washington Institute's Special Policy Forum. Dr. Sazegara, one of the founders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, held a number of posts in the Iranian government during the 1980s. In 1989, disillusioned,...
Wednesday 1 June 2005
- Lawful Crimes"in Iran" June 1, 2005 - PolicyWatch #999 "Lawful Crimes" in Iran By Mohsen SazegaraJune 1, 2005As this month's presidential election campaign gets underway in Iran, the Iranian government is emphasizing that the country enjoys the rule of law and elected government. In fact, both statements...