Even the most pro-regime candidates have to admit that the economy, especially, is doing very badly.

Even though I'm a historian, I'm also a political activist.

It's not just about “we want Mr. A instead of Mr. B,” but we want them to have an expansive social, political, gender agenda for freedom and equality.

Unfortunately, there's a tradition on the left today where people just sort of lie to themselves or when a question is inconvenient, they put it aside.

There's some sort of a competition, if you will, between reformists within Iran and the opposition abroad.

This is true all the time — if you're in opposition to a government and your country goes into a war, it's going to be hard for you to navigate.