Momentum Shifts to Iran's Reformers
Reza Aslan, a contributor to the Daily Beast, is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and senior fellow at the Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of the bestseller No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War.
Tehran's opposition has regained its edge with smarter, more creative protests and even some senior army officers. Reza Aslan on why the regime is beginning to fear a repeat of the 1979 revolution.
Use Islam to End the Iranian Regime
Nazee Moinian is a consultant on Iran who most recently worked at the Council of Foreign Relations on the Middle East and a graduate at SIPA at Columbia University.
Thirty years ago, Iranians used Islam as a catalyst to overthrow the shah. Nazee Moinian, who lived through that revolution, on how the protesters on the streets of Tehran can use religion to bring down the current leadership.
Iran's Supreme Revolutionary
Reza Aslan, a contributor to the Daily Beast, is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and senior fellow at the Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of the bestseller No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War.
By inexplicably inserting himself into the election controversy, Ayatollah Khamenei is destroying his reputation and tainting himself with an aura of corruption, Reza Aslan writes. Worse, he's unwittingly turning a protest into a revolution.
@Revolution: Taking a Page from Khomeini's Playbook
Nasser Weddady and Jesse Sage direct the HAMSA civil rights initiative of the American Islamic Congress. They have organized numerous training seminars on civil rights reform and nonviolent direct activism for young Middle Easterners. Weddady's coverage of the ongoing Iran protests can be found on Twitter via @weddady.
Jesse Sage and Nasser Weddady direct the HAMSA civil rights initiative of the American Islamic Congress. They have organized numerous training seminars on civil rights reform and nonviolent direct activism for young Middle Easterners. Weddady's coverage of the ongoing Iran protests can be found on Twitter via @weddady.
Thirty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini mastered the art of nonviolent confrontation to mobilize grassroots support and respond strategically to repression by the Shah's regime. Can today's opposition learn from his feat?
I would like to recommend The Life and Times of the Shah by Gholam Reza Afkhami. It is different from most other books on Iran in that it is based mainly on primary material, deals with people and events in context, and is by and large o...
Farah Pahlavi served as Queen of Iran from 1959-1979. She appeared in the documentary The Queen and I at the Sundance film festival this year. Now in her 30th year of exile, she lives in Washington, D.C. and France.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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