ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Iranian Left holds a centennial balance sheet of great contributions, tragic flaws, tortuous trans- formations and surprising resilience. Despite relentless political repression, and contrary to the recurrent predications of its detractors, the Left has survived into the twenty-first century not only in exile or underground but in the very midst of the Islamic Republic, where an influential part of the reform movement has adopted the leftist mantle.
