Iranian Revolution Articles

Zoroaster and the Ayatollahs

Abbas Milani | Dec 16, 2010
Iran's culture wars between its Persian imperial past and Arab Muslim influence have been raging since long before the 1979 revolution. 

The Revolution Will Be Mercantilized

Ali Ansari | Feb 11, 2010
Iran is degenerating into a security state, with the Revolutionary Guard Corps at the helm. The fight for supremacy among the hard-line elite can only lead to a crisis within the Iranian state.

Iranian Resurrection

Robert Baer | Oct 30, 2008
Iran is becoming a superpower. Funding proxy armies, controlling vital energy hubs and winning the heart of the Arab street, Tehran has created a sphere of influence on an imperial scale. If we don’t do something—and soon—Iran, not China or Russia

A Broken Engagement

Barbara Slavin | Nov 01, 2007
Hell hath no fury like a Tehran scorned.

The Fourth Age

Charles A. Kupchan | Sep 01, 2006

Brussels Unbound

Jeffrey L. Cimbalo | Jun 01, 2006
The EU has "unilateralist" ambitions.

From Awakening to War

Robert F. Ellsworth | Jun 01, 2006
Without quick mediation, the politicization of religion could lead to conflict.

Islam and Islamism: Faith and Ideology

| Mar 01, 2000

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