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Roham Alvandi رهام الوندی

Oct 9 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

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Do yourself a favour and go and see 'Rebel Rebel', Soheila Sokhanvari's exhibition at the @BarbicanCentre of stunning portraits of Iranian women who were cultural icons of the Pahlavi era. Her work could not be more timely. #PahlaviStudies
barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/…

Forugh Farrokhzad, perhaps the most important modernist poet of her generation, and coincidentally a fellow Tafreshi.

Googoosh (Faegheh Atashin), the queen of Iranian pop music.

Forouzan (Parvin Kheirbakhsh), a star of Iranian cinema who appeared in countless films alongside Mohammad Ali Fardin.

My favourite piece was this portrait of Iranian actress Zinat Moaddab.

Here is the origina photo that the portrait is based on.

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@DrRohamAlvandi

Sep 29

What does the experience of the 1978-79 Iranian Revolution suggest about the 2022 #IranRevolution? A few points in this thread. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امينى

1) The Shah's regime did not fall overnight. The revolution played out from late 1977 to early 1979. There were many ups and downs and even periods of total calm, punctuated by mass protests. Don't expect the Islamic Republic to fall so quickly.

https://twitter.com/DrRohamAlvandi/status/1405808046580846593

2) The single most important factor was the crisis of legitimacy that engulfed the Pahlavi monarchy. As I wrote back in June last year, Raisi's sham election was the Islamic Republic's 'Rastakhiz moment.' This was the turning point.

https://twitter.com/DrRohamAlvandi/status/1405808046580846593

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Roham Alvandi رهام الوندی

@DrRohamAlvandi

Sep 22

As the uprising in Iran continues, what can we say about this explosion of outrage at the murder of #Mahsa_Amini? Like the death of Mohamed Bouazizi or George Floyd, her murder has touched a raw nerve of anger in Iran with the injustices of the Islamic Republic. A thread:

Firstly, the issue of forced veiling has become the lightening rod of opposition to the Islamic Republic and the burning of the hijab is a symbolic rejection of theocracy and a demand for secular state that does not interfere in the private lives of Iranian women and men.

Secondly, although Mahsa Amini was a Kurdish Iranian, this is not a sectarian issue. The response to her murder has transcended all ethnic and geographic boundaries, with solidarity amongst Iranians from every region in the country. This is a national event.

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Roham Alvandi رهام الوندی

@DrRohamAlvandi

Jun 18, 2021

1/ This presidential election is the Islamic Republic's 'Rastakhiz' moment. Just as the Shah's creation of a one-party-state in 1975 is seen in retrospect as the high-point of his authoritarianism and a grave mistake, so too will this election come to haunt the Islamic Republic.

2/ The creation of the Rastakhiz Party in 1975 was, bizarrely, an attempt to institutionalise the Shah's rule and create a space for loyal dissent and discussion within the regime. Similarly, the Islamic Republic has drawn the red lines of dissent to preclude any real reform.

3/ While many analysts are saying that this election spells the end of the reform movement in Iran, in reality the possibility of reform died long ago. It died with the chain murders of 1998 and the violent suppression of student protests in 1999 and the Green Movement in 2009.

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