Center for Middle East Policy

I don’t know what the right word is — censorship or repression or something else...But the basic point holds — a powerful regime that doesn’t have the same scruples as others is creating a culture of fear, and companies react with kowtowing.

It’s symptomatic of the revolutionary state’s highly ideological and often inept approach to governance...What’s maddening is that Iran has enormous scientific capabilities and a well regarded public health system. So this is entirely a leadership failure.