Source: mehdikhalaji.com/archives/1103 Translation by Iran Press Watch Mehdi Khalaji 30 August, 2014 Below is the full text of my talk at the Twenty Forth Conference of the Association of Friends of Persian Culture, on twenty ninth…

Source: mehdikhalaji.com/archives/1103 Translation by Iran Press Watch Mehdi Khalaji 30 August, 2014 Below is the full text of my talk at the Twenty Forth Conference of the Association of Friends of Persian Culture, on twenty ninth…
By Mehdi Khalaji Editor’s Note: Mehdi Khalaji is a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute and focuses on the role of politics in contemporary Shi’ite clericalism in Iran and Iraq. From 1986 to 2000 he…