Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Mehrzad Boroujerdi, a past president of the Association for Iranian Studies, is vice provost and dean of the College of Arts, Sciences and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is the author of “Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism” and co-author of “Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook.”
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The Unresolved Contradictions Ali Khamenei Leaves Behind
Ali Khamenei’s journey took him from literary modernism to revolutionary Islamism. With the supreme leader’s death, Iranians are left to reckon with the political order he shaped and the unresolved contradictions he leaves behind. The impending succession now places the Islamic republic’s future in question.