akbar ganji

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 eager to profit in international markets to the detriment [...]

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 piece today. The fact is that those on the [...]

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 of articles exposing its human rights [...]