President Raisi s unexpected death raises hopes that Iran s policy towards the West may soften, but the true extent will depend on the outcome of the upcoming snap election.
The Iranian revolution sought to establish an Islamic state. Officially, it got one. Unofficially, however, the process did not lead to the Islamicization of society, but to a transformation of Islam. This, in any case, is the theory held by the Iranian sociologist Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi. Mona Sarkis spoke to him