Mahmoud Pargoo
Biography
Publications
Mahmoud Pargoo is an expert on society and politics of post-revolutionary Iran. He got his Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from Australian Catholic University and is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “paradoxes of secularisation and Islamization in post-revolutionary Iran”. His comments have been published in international outlets such as al-Monitor, The Diplomat, and Lobelog.
Denials, delays, and conspiracy theories: Iran’s Covid mismanagement
The crisis reveals fundamental failures: a politicised health system, multiple power centres, and no respect for law.
How the regime extinguishes Iran’s “Petroleum Protests”
The most damaging unrest since the 1979 revolution lacks leadership or popular support, so appears doomed to fail.
What Iran’s hardliners stand to gain from the Abqaiq attack
If Tehran gave the green light to a strike in Saudi Arabia, why now, just as a Trump-Rouhani meeting seemed possible?
Iran’s dangerous gamble
Hardliners in Tehran might underestimate Washington’s reluctance to fight while overestimating their control at home.
How Assad’s Tehran trip exposed political rifts in Iran
The visit by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad carried far deeper meaning in the tension between Iran’s hardliners and moderates.
