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Nov 19, 2019

Dagres joins Channel 4 on the shutdown of internet in Iran due to protests

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Nov 19, 2019

Slavin quoted in Truthout on Iran sanctions

By Atlantic Council

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Nov 19, 2019

Slavin quoted in TRUTHOUT on the impact of economic sanctions on Iran

By Atlantic Council

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IranSource

Nov 19, 2019

Iran protests: Something has to give

By Kevjn Lim

At midnight on November 15, the Iranian government announced it was hiking petrol prices by at least 50 percent. Although the government justified the measure—itself part of badly-needed structural reforms—as a means of generating cash handouts for 60 million of the country’s poorest citizens (or 75 percent of the population), it triggered large-scale protests across […]

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Nov 18, 2019

Iran protests: A quest for reform turns into widespread discontent

By Giorgia Perletta

Popular protests are flaring up in the Middle East. From Lebanon to Iraq and now Iran, they show the weakening of the social contract between the population and their government. In the Islamic Republic, the post-revolutionary social contract was born on a populist promises of justice, but decades of endemic political and economic inefficiencies wiped […]

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In the News

Nov 18, 2019

Dagres quoted in L’Orient Le Jour to discuss the stakes of the Iranian protest

Corruption Economy & Business

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Nov 16, 2019

Slavin joins BBC World News to discuss Iran protests

By Atlantic Council

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Nov 16, 2019

Dagres quoted in Washington Post to discuss the influence of the economy on current and past Iranian protests

Corruption Economy & Business

IranSource

Nov 13, 2019

Iran and Europe play nuclear chicken

By Barbara Slavin

Neither Europe nor Iran wants to see the destruction of the JCPOA, which represented for each the culmination of twelve years of hard diplomatic work, initially without US participation.

Iran Middle East

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Nov 11, 2019

Slavin quoted in JNS on Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 JCPOA

By Atlantic Council

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