Melville House Books

“Whatever happens, nothing will be the same in Tehran.” So begins French writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy‘s wide-ranging “Message to the Young People of Iran.” In a video posted last week, Levy, author of Who Killed Daniel Pearl? and War, Evil, and the End of History, speaks to Iranians in English, including the “naive who believed” in the legitimacy of the political process. Levy insist that Ahmadinejad has “lost what remained of his authority” and that the Ayatollahs have shamed all Iranians by siding with a single candidate.

Kelly Burdick is the executive editor of Melville House.