As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters its second month, President Donald Trump has said he wants “to take the oil” and seize Kharg Island, Iran’s key export hub in the Persian Gulf. President Trump’s ...

Professor Kadivar and Sociology PhD students Khani and Sotoudeh conducted statistical analyses of the recent protests occurring in Iran, which they discuss in their new article in Foreign Affairs. The ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. One month into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, we speak with the Iranian American sociologist Ali Kadivar, who says the leadership in ...

Iranian dissident Mohsen Kadivar had begun what he expected would be a semester-long fellowship at Berlin’s Wissenschaftskolleg to work on a book. Instead, he returned to the United States on February ...

Since late December, demonstrations have erupted throughout the Islamic Republic of Iran, motivated in part by socioeconomic demands, the collapse of the rial currency, and the economy’s struggles ...

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Members of the local Iranian community are expressing wary optimism and uncertainty over the ceasefire deal that the United States and Iran reached on Sunday. The deal, which is expected to be ...

THE country that 20 years ago prided itself on offering an alternative model to western liberal democracy is now facing a period of philosophical angst. Can an Islamic republic also be modern and ...