Ahmad Alehossein

Ahmad Alehossein is the pen name of a senior Iranian social researcher who blogs at <A title=Rahetohid href="http://www.rahetohid.wordpress.com">rahetohid</A>

Could Iran's Rouhani soon face the 'deep opposition' that Egypt's Morsi encountered?

It seems that without the role that the deep-opposition’s pessimism of the intellect played, the shallow opposition’s optimism of the will could never have claimed victory.

By Ahmad Alehossein

/ 6 Aug 2013

The advantage of not understanding politics

The Arab uprisings have proved very different in type to those in Iran, in terms of the scale, scope, both their conscious constituents and their beneficiaries, dynamics and social roots.

By Ahmad Alehossein

/ 19 Mar 2011

Is Iran heading towards another revolution?

Iran's history contains three millennia of despotism, but also three revolutions in the past century alone. The current unrest may suggest that another is on its way. It poses formidable challenges to both the current regime and the moderate reformist leadership

By Ahmad Alehossein

/ 5 Jan 2010