A Progressive Is A Progressive (Except In Iran?)

Iran is, as the Iranian anthropologist Ziba Mir-Hosseini puts it, ‘a state at war with itself.’ Inside Iran there is astruggle for cultural progressive values. So why has the American progressive Left been so quiet in taking sides? “An unwillingness to extend support to the Iranian opposition puts into question any claim to internationalism, solidarity against oppression, or defense of intellectual freedom.”