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U.S. Maritime Blockade: Oil Trapped at Sea, Workers Abandoned on the Ground
A U.S. maritime blockade traps oil at sea, while Iran’s workers are left to absorb the costs of war on the ground. In debates…
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A War Diary from Tehran: From the Ninth Day of War to the New Year That Never Came
A first-person bipolar diary from Tehran captures war as blackout, class fracture, grief, and the fragile insistence on living. Sunday, March 8, 2026 —…
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Postwar Crises: Psychological Insecurity Beneath the Weight of Rising Prices
Across Iran, war has deepened inflation, reduced consumption, made medicine scarcer and more expensive, and intensified fears of unemployment, illness, and homelessness. The most…
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How Workers Ended Up Bearing the Costs of Crisis and War
War did not create Iran’s labor crisis, but it has deepened it, making more visible how inflation, layoffs, and unpaid wages are pushed onto…
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A Blank Page Between Two Bloody Chapters: Will Iran and the United States Reach an Agreement?
Without major reciprocal security guarantees, the current U.S.–Iran talks may amount to nothing more than a pause between two wars. With the United States…
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The Hidden Side of War: Ruin and the Death of Hope
This war’s deepest cost is borne by wage-earners: inflation, unemployment, destroyed industry, and the crushing of hopes for change. One month has passed since…
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Amir Kianpour: “Calling for an Immediate Ceasefire Is the Minimum Precondition for Any Democratic Coalition”
Rejecting both war and the Islamic Republic is not optional politics, but the basic threshold for any democratic coalition grounded in life and dignity.…
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Have Washington and Tehran Reached the “Moment of Truth”?
Trump, Tehran, and Israel still see victory as possible; the war has not yet reached the point where cost and reality force strategic retreat.…
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Mehrdad Vahabi: The Current Middle East Crisis Is More Devastating Than All the Oil Shocks in History
Vahabi argues the Hormuz crisis exceeds past oil shocks and may bring inflation, stagnation, and social breakdown in Iran. Mehrdad Vahabi, professor of economics…
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The Minab School Case: How a School in the Midst of War Became a Battleground Over Truth
Minab is not only about who fired the missile, but about how war corrodes language and turns dead children into objects of political bargaining.…
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From Inside Tehran: Four Days of Loneliness Amid Repression and War
Across four days in Tehran, Ghazal records war, censorship, class unease, loneliness, and a stubborn hope that survives repression. What follows is Ghazal’s account…
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Israel’s Attack on South Pars: Three Voices on Gas Infrastructure, Workers’ Lives, and War
Three experts reflect on the strike on Asaluyeh, warning of deepening hardship for workers, economic disruption, and a widening regional crisis. Following Israel’s attack…