Abdolkarim Soroush

Is Abdolkarim Soroush the Leszek Kolakowski of Iran’s Green revolution? This intriguing question was raised at the recent memorial meeting for the communist-turned-dissident philosopher who became the intellectual godfather of Solidarnosc and, by extension, of democratic Poland.
Similarly, Soroush was once a fanatical ideologue, committed to Ayatollah Khomeinei and complicit in the Islamic Republic’s violent purge [read full story]