The Importance of Local Government in the Iranian Economy

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The project in 1900, I think it was a very, very important one to kind of reconfigure the same naturally summon a lot of those kind of democratic energies which had been quashed since 1981. But with the end of the Cold War, and Raph Sanjani almost themselves very much complete this sort of this reformist in the political class, they do completely in a sense, or they kind of renounce any kind of revolutionary rhetoric and aspirations which they had. So we do really just see this deep seated kind of change in the political imaginary of these homelists leftists," he says.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fifth and final episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We begin this episode in 1997, with reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami’s surprise landslide election to the presidency. Then we cover the reformists running into hardliner repression and George W. Bush's War on Terror, the 2005 election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his 2009 reelection and Green Movement protests, Hassan Rouhani and the nuclear accord that Trump then tore up, the 2019 mass working-class protests, and the election (but really more coronation) of right-winger Ebrahim Raisi. We end with the death of Zhina Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police and the current mass protest movement that erupted in response. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our vast archives and the rest of this series at thedigradio.com Buy Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win by Helen Shiller haymarketbooks.org/books/1952-daring-to-struggle-daring-to-win