June 17th, 2021
By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies at Columbia University; Fellow, Committee of Global Thought at Columbia University
Tajbakhsh discusses the Iranian national and local elections on June 18th. “In other words because the basic preconditions necessary for fully free and fair competitive elections – freedom for political parties, freedom of expression and assembly and so on – are missing, how to deal with highly manipulated elections is always an issue for democratic parties and individuals.”