Abstract
In this Crown Conversation, we spoke with Nader Habibi, Henry J. Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East at the Crown Center; and Amir Mahdavi (GSAS MA ‘19), an Iranian journalist, former member of the central council of a reformist party in Iran, and currently a PhD candidate of political science at the University of Connecticut, about the Iranian government’s domestic and foreign policies and what they reveal about the direction in which the Islamic Republic is headed.