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Category: Interviews
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Why Is Iran’s Parliament So Different from Its Speaker, Ghalibaf?
Iran’s parliament remains dominated by hardliners, while Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf takes a more pragmatic line. Is this a real divide or a calculated…
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Resistance from Below, Not an Axis of States; A conversation with Joseph Daher
Joseph Daher argues for an anti-imperialism rooted not in states or geopolitical blocs, but in workers, popular movements, democratic freedoms and resistance from below.…
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Violence Behind Closed Doors: Four Accounts of Marital Rape
A field report based on four Iranian women’s testimonies reveals how sexual violence within marriage remains hidden behind silence, shame, and patriarchal expectations. Marital…
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When the Bombing Stops, the Environmental War Continues
Elham Houminfar on war’s ecological aftermath, environmental injustice, and how conflict deepens Iran’s pre-existing crises of water, pollution, and climate vulnerability. When we talk…
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Between War, the Right-Wing Opposition, and State-Centered Anti-Imperialism: Interview with Mina Khanlarzadeh
Mina Khanlarzadeh examines state-centered anti-imperialism, the right-wing opposition, lived experience, and why Iranian society should be understood as a producer of political thought. Amid…
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The Intelligence Ministry’s Blacklist: An Interview with Zamaneh’s Editor-in-Chief
Zamaneh’s editor-in-chief condemns the Intelligence Ministry blacklist as repressive, defending diaspora journalism and an anti-war “third voice” against dictatorship and foreign aggression. The Islamic…
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Water, Health, and Justice: Iran’s Hidden Postwar Crisis
Iran’s water crisis is becoming a public health and justice crisis, with its heaviest burdens falling on marginalized communities In the aftermath of the…
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The Representation of Women in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema
Interview with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa Women in Beyzaie’s films emerge as powerful figures of autonomy, memory, myth, and resistance within Iranian cinema. Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa is…
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Seventy-Four Lashes for Iranian Singer Parastoo Ahmadi
Iran’s judiciary punishes a woman singer, exposing the ideological logic and legal flaws behind the criminalization of women’s singing. As news circulated about the…
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Women First to Lose Jobs After the War: An Interview with Iranian Feminist and Sociologist Atefeh Rangriz
Rangriz explains how wartime layoffs and structural neglect push women out of work, deepening dependence, poverty, and domestic violence. The Iranian Labour News Agency…
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A Generation in Suspension: Iran’s Adolescents Between Protest, War, and a Future Without Horizon
Amid protest, repression, and war, how do Iranian adolescents understand and endure their world? This dialogue portrays a generation still searching for meaning, future,…
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How Iran’s State Uses Women in Nighttime Rallies: An Interview with Azadeh Kian
Women’s growing presence in state-sponsored rallies has become a contested political and gendered field, exposing both social diversity and state mobilization strategies. As women’s…