I’ve just been sent this article from Inside Higher Ed. No, don’t stop reading! It provides an interesting perspective on the attitude of the Left to the internal resistance in Iraq and includes an interview with Danny Postel, senior editor of OpenDemocracy. He is also the author of Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism, a recent addition to the Prickly Paradigm pamphlet series distributed by the University of Chicago Press where he writes: “In hundreds of conversations I’ve had with Iranian intellectuals, journalists, and human rights activists in recent years, I invariably encounter exasperation. Why, they ask, is the American Left so indifferent to the struggle taking place in Iran? Why can’t the Iranian movement get the attention of so-called progressives and solidarity activists here? Why is it mainly neoconservatives who express interest in the Iranian struggle?”
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