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Akbar Ganji in Foreign Affairs

By | 06.24.09 | 3:19 pm

I know, I know. I want to read more about Sanford, too. But Akbar Ganji, the Iranian dissident I spoke with last week, has a powerful new Foreign Affairs essay describing the emerging trends within the Iranian regime:

Their ideal regime would create a state-run capitalist class

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UK Foreign Secretary on Iran

By | 06.18.09 | 4:41 pm

On Akbar Ganji’s question of whether the United States and its allies are saying enough about human rights in Iran, check out this remarkably frank blog post from British Foreign Secretary David Miliband:

Fair question - Senator John Kerry also addressed this issue in a typically eloquent

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EXCLUSIVE: Iranian Dissident Akbar Ganji on the Iranian Uprising and Obama

By | 06.18.09 | 2:59 pm

I’ve just conducted a phone interview with Akbar Ganji, one of the leading Iranian dissidents and most prominent voices in the international community for a more liberal Iran. He knows its brutality in a deeply personal way: the regime imprisoned Ganji for five years after he wrote a series More…