Interviews

An interview with Golnaz Esfandiari for the revolution's 28th anniversary. He recalls flying back to Iran with Khomeini at 22, working in the press section in the first days of the revolution, and how the hopes of those days gave way to his break with the theocracy.

Sazegara's written answers in the sixth issue of Gozaar, which focused on Iran's constitution and the rule of law. Mehrdad Mashayekhi and Hormoz Hekmat answered the same questions. He argues that Article 177 leaves any constitutional revision to the Supreme Leader, whose unaccountable power is the core problem. Change…

An interview with Lionel Beehner after North Korea's nuclear test. He argues that encouragement no longer works with Tehran and the world should speak to the regime firmly, that sanctions would be more effective against Iran than against North Korea, and that the radical faction in power wants to follow North Korea's…

His remarks to the Washington Institute's 20th-anniversary Soref Symposium, alongside speakers from Kuwait, Egypt and Lebanon. He argues that Khatami's reformists failed to advance democracy and human rights, but that Iranian society has changed through literacy, urbanisation, global communication, women's work and a…