Jahangir Amuzegar (MEPC): Iran's Oil as a Blessing and a Curse (reg. req.). Damon Golriz (The Hague): Investment in Social Sciences: Key to a Democratic Iran. A review of The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran by Homa Katouzian. A review of A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy. The current turmoil is Iran is not a result of the alleged election fraud, but of thirty years of brutality frustration. Hooman Majd on Iran's Green Movement: It's a civil rights movement, not a revolution. Miller-McCune goes inside the cyberwar for Iran's future. Abbas Milani on Iran's people, Iran's pulpits. A series of political defections and a new poll proves that Ahmadinejad is losing support among the conservatives who once made up his base (and more). Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandsons supporting the reformers, demonstrations in the holy city of Qom? This is a new generation of resistance. In Qom, the site of Iran’s secret uranium-enrichment facility, the Islamic Revolution remains as strong as ever. Iranian regime's days are numbered: An interview with Shirin Ebadi. As Iran returns to the headlines, Robert Irwin considers the range of commentary on the regime and its modern historical context. American foreign policy pundits are the equivalent of what in a different context Martin Luther King Jr called "the white moderates". The Greening of Islam: How the Iranian uprising has transformed Shiism. The music does not remain the same: Can western music foment revolution in Iran? A review of My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari. Doug Ireland reviews Sexual Politics in Modern Iran by Janet Afary.
