Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: Iran On The Brink? With Abbas Milani

Is the current unrest in Iran a flash in the pan or a sign that the repressive theocracy is coming to an end?

Matters of Policy & PoliticsJanuary 11, 2018
Area 45: Iran On The Brink? With Abbas Milani

Eight years after Iran’s Green Movement and antigovernment protests, will the current unrest in the nation have no lasting impact or is it the beginning of the end for the repressive theocracy? Abbas Milani, a Hoover research fellow and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University, explains the nature of the uprising, Tehran’s response, and the Trump administration’s options.

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Abbas Milani

Abbas Milani

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