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Why Iran’s Reform Movement Failed

Why Iran’s Reform Movement Failed

Breaking History

April 9, 202653m 3s

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Show Notes

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.

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