Widespread protests recently erupted in Iran in reaction to a three-fold rise in fuel prices. They were met with brutal government crackdowns. The immediate question to ask is why: what, if any, is the rationale behind this destabilizing economic policy under already severe economic and politica..
Omid Mehrgan and Setareh Shohadaei
Omid Mehrgan is the James M. Motley Fellow at the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University.
Setareh Shohadaei is a doctoral candidate in Political Theory at the New School for Social Research.