The Scholars' Circle

Scholars’ Circle – Iran Presidential election, for whom does it matter. – June 2, 2024

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What challenges and crises are the sudden death of Iran’s president and his succession revealing? What’s happening inside the country? What’s happening with Iran internationally?

We speak with four Iranian scholars on Iran’s political system, internal politics, social and political repression and alienation between state and society. How much of Iran’s foreign policy is driven by domestic issues and how much of it is a reaction to external actors, most notably the United States? [ dur: 58mins. ]

  • Saeid Golkar is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is the author of Captive Society: The Basij Mobilization and Social Control in Post-Revolutionary Iran” (Columbia University Press, 2015) and Personalization of Power in Iran: Regime Incompetency and Protests in Iran.
  • Siavush Randjbar-Daemi is Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History in the School of History at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of The Tudeh Party of Iran and the peasant question and The quest for authority in Iran: a history of the presidency from revolution to Rouhani.
  • Nayereh Tohidi is Professor Emerita in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at California State University, Northridge. She is the author of Women’s Rights and Feminist Movements in Iran.
  • Ervand Abrahamian is Professor Emeritus at City University of New York. He is the author of A History of Modern Iran and Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North Korea, Iran and Syria.

    • This program is produced by Doug Becker, Ankine Aghassian, Maria Armoudian and Sudd Dongre.

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