Iran’s Exiled Scholar Who Impeached Khamenei
An exiled Iranian mujtahid — imprisoned twice, banned across Iranian platforms, and teaching at Duke University — gives his most candid assessment of the Islamic Republic, Velayat-e Faqih, and what the Trump-Netanyahu war has done to Iran’s democratic reform movement.
He breaks down the two dimensions of the Islamic Republic — where it succeeded and where it failed — and shares his final position: a secular democratic state. He reveals why he impeached Khamenei, why Iran’s hardliners, US Republicans, and Israeli Zionists are aligned against peace, and why Trump bears responsibility for the war.