Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic, by Narges Bajoghli

W hat does it mean to be pro-regime in the Islamic Republic of Iran?Narges Bajoghli's Iran Reframed, the 2020 recipient of the Margaret Mead Award, offers a rare, in-depth look at Iran's pro-regime media producers at a time when they face a crisis of credibility: Iran's youth, who comprise the majority of the population in the country, do not remember (and therefore do not understand) the Islamic Republic's revolutionary stories.Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in Iran among various groups of regime supporters and eighteen months of ethnographic research with their media producers specifically, Bajoghli highlights these men's struggles to "transmit the commitment to their revolutionary project" to younger generations and illustrates what is at stake for them in keeping the revolution alive (5).Bajoghli's ethnographically-rich analysis challenges entrenched stereotypes about Iran's regime supporters, demonstrating that they are far from homogenous, cohesive, unchanging, and all-powerful.