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Abbas Milani is Hamid and Christian Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His most recent book is Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979.
Iran’s crisis offers an opportunity for real change.
Real help for Iranian democrats.
Understanding the Rise of Iran's President
Normalizing relations will help Iran and the United States.
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