What Next for Iran?

June 22, 2009

Despite strong warnings from Iran's Revolutionary Guard that protests would not be tolerated, a thousand protestors gathered in central Tehran today to rally against purported voter fraud.

This happened on the same day that Iran's senior election monitors declared the election to be flawed, saying the number of votes exceeded the actual numbers of voters in over 50 Iranian cities. But it is still unknown as to what Iran's official response will be to the suspected vote tampering and where the country will go from here.

New America Foundation has been closely following the Iranian presidential election and the aftermath.

The following NAF experts are available to discuss the latest news on Iran:

Steve Clemons, Director of New America Foundation's American Strategy Program and Publisher of The Washington Note

Flynt Leverett, Director of New America Foundation's Iran Project

Afshin Molavi, New America Foundation Fellow and author of  "The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Journey to Freedom" and "Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran"

Nicholas Schmidle, New America Foundation Fellow and author of "To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan"

Please contact Kate Brown with requests.

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