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“The Coming Iranian Revolution”. March 3, 2026. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/opinion/iran-revolution-khomeini-shah.html.

“Iran’s Crown Prince Has Become Indispensable”. January 16, 2026. https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/16/iran-crown-prince-reza-pahlavi-protests/.

“Iran’s Regime Is Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Fear”. January 16, 2026. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/opinion/iran-fear-demonstrations-islamic-republic.html.

“Iran Is on the Edge of Revolution”. January 8, 2026. https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2026/01/iran-is-on-the-edge-of-revolution.

“Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma”, Liberties Journal, 6, no. 2 (January 7, 2026). https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/alikhamenei-profile-in-dogma/.

“Khamenei, Don Quixote, and Culture Wars”. October 13, 2025. https://www.hoover.org/research/khamenei-don-quixote-and-culture-wars.

McFaul, Michael, and Abbas Milani. “The Real Meaning of Putin’s Middle East Failure”, July 25, 2025. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/real-meaning-putins-middle-east-failure-michael-mcfaul.

Hecker, Siegfried, and Abbas Milani. “Time for Iran to Make a No-Enrichment Nuclear Deal”, July 8, 2025. https://thebulletin.org/2025/07/time-for-iran-to-make-a-no-enrichment-nuclear-deal/.

“Ayatollah Khamenei Faces a Nuclear Nightmare”. June 23, 2025. https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2025/06/ayatollah-khamenei-faces-a-nuclear-nightmare.

“Only Democracy Can End Iran’s Nuclear Threat”. June 18, 2025. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/only-regime-change-can-end-iran-nuclear-threat-by-abbas-milani-2025-06.

“A Dangerous Dance for Israel and Iran”. October 4, 2024. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/israel-iran-deterrance-escalating-attacks-by-abbas-milani-2024-10.

“Reza Shah and His Crown Prince (in Persian)”. July 13, 2024. https://www.aasoo.org/fa/articles/4857.

“Iran’s Succession Crisis Is a Legitimacy Crisis”. May 27, 2024. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/iran-succession-crisis-exposes-regime-legitimacy-deficit-by-abbas-milani-2024-05.

“The War of Goharshad Mosque; The Story of Gohrshad Mosque Narrated by the Book ‘Behlool and Reza Shah’ (in Persian)”. March 25, 2024. https://www.aasoo.org/fa/articles/4694.

“Khamenei’s Muscular ‘Soft Power’ in the US”. December 5, 2023. https://www.hoover.org/research/khameneis-muscular-soft-power-us.

Ed. Satrapi, Marjane. “Women’s Rights: An Age-Old Battle”. L’Iconoclaste, September 14, 2023. https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9782378803780-femme-vie-liberte-marjane-satrapi/.

“Reza Shah and His Modernization: An Analysis of ‘The Travelogue of Mazandaran,’ in Memory of Ebrahim Golestan (in Persian)”. September 12, 2023. https://iranwire.com/fa/special-features/120239-رضاشاه-و-تجددش-نگاهی-به-سفرنامه-مازندران-به-یاد-ابراهیم-گلستان۱/.

McFaul, Michael, and Abbas Milani. “How China’s Saudi-Iran Deal Can Serve U.S. Interests”, Foreign Policy, March 13, 2023. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/14/china-saudi-iran-us-middle-east-geopolitics-diplomacy/.

Eds. Blaydes, Lisa, Amr Hamzawy, and Hesham Sallam. “Iran’s Culture Wars in the Arab World”. University of Michigan Press, October 11, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12237894.

“Encounters With Golestan’s Encounter (in Persian)”. February 19, 2022. https://www.bbc.com/persian/blog-viewpoints-60444658.