Why Iran’s Reform Movement Failed
About this episode
Arash Azizi discusses the failure of Iran's reform movement and its implications for the possibility of internal reform within the Islamic Republic.
Arash Azizi lived through the democracy movement in Iran before he wrote about it. Now a historian at Yale, he joins Eli Lake to trace the arc from former president Mohammad Khatami’s unlikely rise to the crushed hopes of the Green Movement—and what it tells us about whether reform from within the Islamic Republic was ever really possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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