The Deal with The Newest Deal

Unfortunately, personal obligations have prevented me from posting on a regular basis during the last few months. While I will continue to remain tied down until early August, I will be posting two items in the coming week. First, I will share my comprehensive look at the role of networks in Iranian social movements. Using the three case studies of the 1979 revolution, the reform movement under Mohammad Khatami that culminated with 1999's 18-Tir uprising, and the current Green movement, I will show how networks have and continue to facilitate political change in Iran.

Secondly, as the one-year anniversary of last year's fraudulent election approaches, I will be publishing a piece in a journal examining the irony of just how much stronger the Islamic Republic would have been had Mir-Hossein Mousavi's electoral victory been allowed to stand, and consequently, how much weaker (and moribund) the current regime has become as a result of the stolen election, not to mention the violent crackdown and current state of affairs that followed.