Latest Article from Our Executive Director, Bahman Baktiari
Author: Bahman Baktiari
Publication: Deseret News, March 9, 2023
Protests in Iran continue to gain traction while journalists and protesters put their own lives in danger
New Initiative:
Baskerville Institute Digital Friendship (BIDF)
BIDF is a digital platform that connects to online courses offered by American universities. BDIF does not offer these courses. However, our platform makes it possible for prospective students to search for information provided by universities to help them tailor their educational needs and find essential information.
BIDF is a digital community promoting friendship through education, providing a virtual space for students to exchange ideas and enhance mutual understanding. Join the Baskerville Friendship Club and start exchanging ideas that help build civic friendship between Americans and Iranians.
Iranian Athletes For Freedom (IAF)
The Baskerville Institute is proud to support Iranian athletes with its initiative Athletes for Freedom. It takes courage to fight for your right to be free. Iranian Athletes for Freedom is an initiative that supports Iranian athletes fight against dictatorship, violence, discrimination, and the suppression of free speech. Learn more about Baskerville Institute’s initiative Athletes for Freedom (IAF).
Opinion: Filmmakers, musicians, visual artists and writers have found new ways to protest in Iran
Author: Bahman Baktiari
Publication: Deseret News, January 12, 2023
The Iranian protests continue into 2023, and the protesters are growing.
Opinion: A game changer in Iran — how soccer stars are driving Iran’s protest movement
Author: Bahman Baktiari
Publication: Deseret News, December 8, 2022
The FIFA World Cup in Qatar has soccer enthusiasts scrutinizing every game, analyzing offensive and deference tactics, attacks, passing and teamwork while they wildly cheer for their favorite team. But inside Iran, the focus on soccer and the World Cup is quite different.
Woman, Life, Freedom: The Origins of the Uprising in Iran
Author: Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson
Publication: Dissent Magazine, December 2, 2022
The massive protests in Iran, fueled by the audacity of young women and children, are rooted in over a century of struggle.
Iran’s clerics have declared war on their own people
Author: John Limbert
Publication: Responsible Statecraft, December 1, 2022
A tight, privileged fraternity of religious leaders has monopolized power in Tehran since 1979. It’s now backed itself into a corner.
Opinion: How sports stars are forwarding the protests in Iran
Author: Bahman Baktiari
Publication: Deseret News, October 13, 2022
The bond between athlete and fan carries through in the Iranian protests.
By killing Mahsa Amini, the Islamic Republic has created millions of Medeas
Author: John Limbert
Publication: Iran Source, October 13, 2022
In Greek mythology, when the hero Jason betrays his wife, the princess Medea of Colchis, and marries another woman, Medea exacts the most horrible revenge and kills her rival and even her own children. In today’s Iran, millions of latter-day Medeas are bravely telling the world they have had enough of mistreatment by a brutal regime.
