Ali Fathollah-Nejad
Ali Fathollah-Nejad is a German-Iranian political scientist focusing on Iran, the Middle East and the post-unipolar world order. He is a McCloy fellow on global trends at the American Council on Germany and an associate fellow with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, where he publishes a report titled Iran in Focus. He is the author of “Iran in an Emerging New World Order: From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani” (2021).
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In Hijab Protests, Iranians Reveal Their Oppressive Rulers
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The President’s Daughter and Dissent in Iran
The daughter of Iran’s former president has publicly broken two of the Islamic Republic’s biggest political taboos. Does this reveal a genuine split at the top or mere maneuvering by political elites?