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1999 Dissertation Predicts Rise Of Radical Right In Iran

In August of 1999, in a dissertation entitled, "Democratic Transitions and the Weber/Freud Connection," an American political scientist, Matthew Wells, predicted in amazing detail the failure of the reform movement in Iran and the rise of the radical right. In October of 1999, the findings of Wells' book were presented at the Policy Sciences Annual Institute at Yale University.

Since this time, Iran has seen a virtual takeover of power by the radical right in Iran, recently culminating in the election of the conservative former revolutionary guardsman, Mahmud Ahmadinejad to the presidency.

Wells recently announced a book deal to release the dissertation under the tenative title "Parallelism in Revolution: The Cases of France, Germany, and Iran."

Wells is currently the director of the Center for the Study of Political Parallelism (www.parallelism.org) and a founding member of the Society for the Policy Sciences at Yale University.