Remembering War: Sana Chavoshian speaks with Laurens Schlicht about the Legacy of the Iran-Iraq-War (1980-1988)

In July 2025, Laurens Schlicht spoke with our colleague Sana Chavoshian about her newly published book "Martyrs and Stones in Iran’s Post-War Politics". The book begins with the traumatic legacy of the Iran–Iraq War, the brutal conflict fought between 1980 and 1988. Only a year earlier, in 1979, the Iranian Revolution had overthrown the Shah, and Iran had been declared an Islamic Republic. The war soon became one of the defining events in the Republic’s early years.