Abbas Milani

Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University, where he is also the codirector of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. His book, The Shah, was published in January 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan.

 


Essays

Society

Ahmadinejad vs. The Ayatollah

| 06.21.11

A battle royal between the president and the supreme leader has engulfed Tehran. The result? Khamenei and his allies are methodically and ruthlessly establishing the planet’s most unabashed theocratic despotism.

Society

Zoroaster and the Ayatollahs

| 12.16.10

Iran's culture wars between its Persian imperial past and Arab Muslim influence have been raging since long before the 1979 revolution. 

Commentary

Politics

The Inside Story of America's Favorite Terrorist Group

| 08.18.11

A long, hard look at the terrorists-cum-cultish extremists who are making friends in Washington—and making the ayatollahs in Tehran very nervous.

Security

Khamenei's Assault on Iran

| 07.28.11

How the Supreme Leader is steadily dispatching rivals and gaining ultimate power over Iran.

Society

The Myth of Operation Ajax

| 01.24.11

America can't form a prudent policy toward Iran until it exorcises the ghost of Washington's role in bringing down Mossadegh.

Society

What Iranians Really Think

| 01.04.11

Recent polling and erstwhile supporters' criticism claiming that Iran's opposition movement has been tamed is based on some very flimsy evidence.

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May 25, 2012