by nunez.146@osu.edu | Sep 13, 2024 | Ohio State University
As America reaches election day in November, the 2024 presidential race has been found to be a topic of the utmost importance to not only Americans but foreign actors. As influence of U.S Policy making continues to increase on a global scale, the election of a new...
by Anna Thorner | Jan 31, 2024 | Sabanci University
Elections in Iran used to be quite competitive and consequential. However, the democratic elements of the regime were successively weakened and even moderate former President Rouhani is prevented from running for a seat in the Assembly of Experts. The 2024 elections...
by Ella Jenkins | Nov 21, 2022 | Suffolk University
In Iran, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was killed on September 16, 2022, while being detained for “wearing her hijab incorrectly”. This sparked a mass of protests throughout the country. This incident seemed to be the breaking point of decades of tension between...
by Alia Arnold | Oct 12, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
In mid-September of this year Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman was taken into police custody and died shortly after. The police stated that Mahsa Amini had a heart attack and that was the cause of her death. Although Amini’s brother, Kiarash Amini was outside the...
by Alice Hornsby-George | Jun 7, 2021 | University of Surrey
There is clear cut evidence, both in reports on democracy and through empirical evidence from around the globe, that the trend of the world is in the direction of autocracy, away from the considered norm of democratic ideals. Iran is perhaps one of the biggest...
