Pegah Banihashemi

Pegah Banihashemi is a constitutional law scholar and legal analyst at the University of Chicago law school. Her work focuses on international law and international relations, with particular emphasis on Iran, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Can Iran’s protestors keep going?

As Iran enters the third week of nationwide protests, the pace of events has become dizzying. News breaks by the minute, and, as Persians say: ‘One eye is filled with tears, the other with blood.’ We are all waiting anxiously for a change that feels both inevitable and profoundly uncertain. For five to six consecutive