Cole On Kpfk Rafsanjani Misbah Yazdi

Juan Cole 08/01/2007

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Cole on KPFK
Rafsanjani/ Misbah-Yazdi Rivalry in Iran

For SoCal readers: Will be on the radio with Jon Wiener this afternoon 4:20 pm PST. For the rest, streamed live at kpfk.org, 7:20 pm EST.

At our group blog, a translated article on a fateful political rivalry in Iran, the outcome of which could help decide whether Iran will head further in the direction of puritan militancy.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page