Talk Highlights Outcomes of Iranian Election

May 23, 2017  |  Valley News

An article in the Valley News highlighted Dartmouth Sociology Professor Misagh Parsa's views on the roots of a deep discord between the Iranian people and their Islamist government and pointed to possible outcomes.

Parsa, author of the book Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed, talked only days after a major victory by Hassan Rouhani, a moderate reformer, in Iran's presidential election. 

She told the Valley News, "It’s highly unlikely for Iran to democratize through reform,” Parsa said, given that reformers have to work within the existing structures of power. “And so instead it’s likely that Iran will need to go through another revolutionary transformation.”

Professor Parsa's talk was co-sponsored by the Dickey Center and the Department of Sociology. 

Read the entire article by Rob Wolfe in the Valley News.