Sadegh Zibakalam: As someone who was a political activist, the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s regime was beyond my imagination.

The reality is that we are terribly backward in the humanities

Technology can be imported; but you cannot do this when it comes to history, sociology, and psychology

You cannot imagine how far behind Americans, French, and others we are in the humanities!

I started reading books about Iran’s transformations; I had fallen in love with the story of "How did Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi fall"

I told the Ministry of Science that I did not want to study chemical engineering; the only person who supported my decision was Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush.

An interview with Dr. Sadegh Zibakalam, professor of political science at the University of Tehran

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