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America’s torch song for Tehran
By Kenneth M PollackAn Arab foreign minister once asked me: “Why are you Americans so infatuated with Iran? She is like your insane ex-girlfriend whom you endlessly pine for even though she only wants...
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Iraq’s failed uprising after the 1979 Iranian revolution
By Ranj AlaaldinThe 1979 Iranian revolution had a cataclysmic impact on the region and 40 years since the Islamic Republic’s founding, the legacy of the revolution is still being debated. The emergence...
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How the Iran hostage crisis shaped the US approach to sanctions
By Kate Hewitt, Richard NephewOn November 14, 1979—10 days after Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took American diplomats as hostages—President Jimmy Carter signed Executive Order...
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Iran’s economy 40 years after the Islamic Revolution
By Djavad Salehi IsfahaniUnlike the socialist revolutions of the last century, the Islamic Revolution of Iran did not identify itself with the working class or the peasantry, and did not bring a...
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International law and the Iranian revolution
By Scott R. AndersonWhen student demonstrators overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, the world did not know how Iran’s new revolutionary government would respond. Just nine months...
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Post-revolutionary Iran and Turkey at 40: Pragmatism and convergence
By Kemal KirişciThe 1979 departure of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi from Iran, followed by the return of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, provoked mixed feelings in Turkey. Initially, many in Turkey saw these...
View ArticleFour decades later, did the Iranian revolution fulfill its promises?
By Ali Fathollah-NejadIf Iran were to hold a referendum on the Islamic Republic today, over 70% would clearly oppose it—among them the wealthy, academics, clerics, village, and city-dwellers. This...
View Articleبعد مرور أربعة عقود، هل وفت الثورة الإيرانية بوعودها؟
By Ali Fathollah-Nejadلو أجرت إيران استفتاءً حول الجمهورية الإسلامية اليوم، لعارضها أكثر من 70 في المئة. وتشمل هذه النسبة الأثرياءَ والأكاديميين ورجال الدين والمقيمين في الريف والمدينة. ولم تصدر هذه...
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The Iranian hostage crisis and its effect on American politics
By Elaine KamarckUnlike many other countries, America has been blessed by two oceans and two friendly countries on its borders. Because of this, foreign affairs do not typically figure prominently in...
View ArticleThe Iranian Revolution at Forty
By Suzanne MaloneyHow Iran—and the world around it—have changed in the four decades since a revolutionary theocracy took power Iran’s 1979 revolution is one of the most important events of the late...
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