by Matin Kordnavahsi | May 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bottom Line & Above 17 – 23 May 2023 The Real Poverty of the Nezam The economic failures of the Islamic Republic of Iran are legion and well-known. In this space last week, we examined a number of examples of the Nezam’s economic dysfunction to argue that...
by Matin Kordnavahsi | May 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bottom Line & Above 10 – 16 May 2023 Iran’s Feet of Clay Looks can be deceiving. A child of the Cold War, I grew up with duck-and-cover drills at school, cub scout field trips to the city fallout shelter, and the values of parents shaped by the...
by Matin Kordnavahsi | May 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bottom Line & Above 3 – 9 May 2023 Reformists, Principlists, and the JCPOA We passed a milestone of sorts this week—and we don’t mean the V-E Day anniversary that increasingly is remembered only in Russia. But Monday, 8 May, marked five years since...
by Matin Kordnavahsi | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bottom Line & Above 26 April – 2 May 2023 Workers Losing Ground in Iran During last autumn’s protests in Iran, the question for which analysts kept checking their crystal balls for an answer was “how broad a social base supports these protests?” ...
by Matin Kordnavahsi | Apr 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bottom Line & Above 19 – 25 April 2023 The Incredible Shrinking Rahbar This past week in Iran demonstrated that, despite a recent run of foreign policy successes, it is not all beer and skittles for the Nezam. As our featured article this week details,...
