Featured essay · Pooyan Aslani
From “Forgiveness” to “Guarantees”
On building a republic where law becomes an enforceable guarantee, citizens can make claims, and power remains answerable to public scrutiny.
A new social contract
for an Iran free from domination
A project developing manifestos and public conversations for a people-centred future founded on freedom, equality and dignity.
This is our English introduction. The ten manifestos and featured articles below are currently in Persian.
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The social contract
Begin with the foundations of legitimacy and a new social contract.
Read manifesto one · Persian →Rasm No conversations
Discuss Iran’s future: rights, equality and accountable institutions.
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Ways to participate →Writing in Radio Zamaneh · Persian
Read, question, discuss
Constitution and transition
Day Zero Is Too Late to Start Thinking
The test of transition · Part one
Amid the Protests, Write “Day Zero” Today
The project texts
Ten manifestos for a new social contract
These are open texts: an invitation to criticism, participation, revision and the development of a shared public language.
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Legitimacy and the social contract
Read in Persian → 02Freedom as non-domination
Read in Persian → 03Justice, equality and people-centred government
Read in Persian → 04Self-determination and government without domination
Read in Persian → 05Institutions of participatory democracy
Read in Persian → 06Development and sustaining non-domination
Read in Persian → 07Citizens’ rights and responsibilities
Read in Persian → 08Culture, education and an inclusive national identity
Read in Persian → 09Foreign policy and international cooperation without domination
Read in Persian → 10From forgiveness to guarantees
Read in Persian →Resources for study and criticism
Jahan Asadi’s proposed constitution
“The Constitution of the United States of Iran,” published on Naoruz, is offered here as a resource for studying and debating constitutional design.
Author: Jahan Asadi · Source: Naoruz
The project’s public conversations
Rasm No
Rights | Equality | Public claims
Watch on YouTube · Persian ↗Manifesto five · Part one
Two chambers for a republic without domination
A national assembly, a council of nations, preferential voting and regional constitutions in a multinational Iran.
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