Please enjoy this guest essay on the Iranian crisis from Professor Ivan Sascha Sheehan of the University of Baltimore. All guest essays are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Hot Air and Townhall Media.
February 8 may seem like just another day—perhaps the start of a pleasant weekend—but for Iranians in exile, it carries profound significance. The date marks the lead-up to February 11, the anniversary of the 1979 revolution when the Iranian people united to overthrow the Shah’s dictatorial rule in pursuit of freedom and justice.
Now, 46 years later, thousands of Iranians across a vast diaspora, will gather in Paris for a large-scale rally organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a coalition of democratic opposition forces, under the banner “Onward to a Democratic Republic. No to…
