The Deadlock in Iran: Pressures from Below

Issue Date January 2003
Volume 14
Issue 1
Page Numbers 126-131
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Despite today’s gridlock, there are grounds for hope in the widespread embrace of democratic ideals by young people.

About the Author

Ramin Jahanbegloo is head of the Department of Research on Contemporary Thought at the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran. His books include Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (1991), Gandhi: Aux sources de la nonviolence (1998), and Iran and Modernity (2000). During 2001–2002 he was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington, D.C.

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