Why Iran won't budge on mandatory hijab laws — according to the president's wife - NPR

Monday, September 25, 2023

News Type: USIP in the News

Iran's government has put forth a new spokesperson to defend its policies toward women: the president's wife. Jamileh Alamolhoda accompanied her husband to the annual meeting of the United Nations in New York. She took questions from NPR as her country marked the one-year anniversary of nationwide uprisings that were triggered by the death of...

Fragility & Resilience

Putin and Russia's Future - The Wilson Center

Monday, June 26, 2023

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Beware predictions about Vladimir Putin’s imminent demise. The informal rule in foreign policy circles is that an autocrat can sustain power if he has the support of 30% of the population. He then has the requisite manpower to run the state bureaucracy, police society, either pay taxes or corruption tolls...

Democracy & Governance

On GPS: Another revolution in Iran? - CNN

Sunday, October 23, 2022

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Veteran Middle East journalist Robin Wright tells Fareed that, in Iran, we are witnessing the world's first counter-revolution led by women...

Gender

Iran's Protests Are The First Counter-Revolution Led By Women - The New Yorker

Sunday, October 9, 2022

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The girls and women of Iran are just bitchin’ brave, flipping the bird at its Supreme Leader in a challenge to one of the most significant revolutions in modern history. Day after dangerous day, on open streets and in gated schools, in a flood of tweets and brazen videos, they have ridiculed a theocracy that..

Gender

Noel Casler and Robin Wright Episode 558 - Stand Up! Daily with Pete Dominick

Thursday, March 10, 2022

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1:18 Robin Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, The Atlantic, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News, Foreign Affairs and many others. Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa and several years as a roving foreign correspondent worldwide. She has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. Until 2008, she covered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post...

Conflict Analysis & Prevention