Iran’s Zam And Other Sons Of The Islamic Republic Who Rebelled Against The Clerical Regime – Analysis

By Golnaz Esfandiari*

(RFE/RL) -- Ruhollah Zam's father, a cleric who served as the head of Iran's state propaganda agency in the 1980s, named him after the leader of the 1979 revolution and the founder of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

But as an adult, Zam turned against the clerical establishment that...