The Iranian Revolution drew upon Islamic ideals to envisage a utopia of freedom and independence governed by Islamic values and democratic principles. But soon this degenerated into a system where an individual's attempt to uphold her rights and liberties was quickly and often violently reinterpreted as her falling prey to "western cultural invasion and moral decadence".
Thirty years later, many are still trying to figure out what went wrong. Some insist that the Republic's failure to embrace democracy fully and wholeheartedly lies at the root of its problems; others maintain that the very idea of an "Islamic Republic" is self-contradictory.
In a brilliant analysis, Aram Anahid, however argues from a Baha'i perspective that the Islamic Republic's reluctance to uphold the rights of its citizens is in fact rooted in the failure of Iran's Shi'a clergy to understand and uphold a fundamental difference between religion and civil law.
Read this seminal article at Iran Press Watch: http://iranpresswat
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Ahang Rabbani, PhD
http://ahang.
http://iranpresswat
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