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Category: Opinion
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From Demanding Rights to Exercising Them: Four Years After Woman, Life, Freedom
Four years after Jina Amini’s death, women are no longer only demanding rights from the state. Increasingly, they are exercising them in everyday life.…
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Revisiting Woman, Life, Freedom: Achievements, Challenges, and Life Beyond Protest
Four years on, Woman, Life, Freedom has moved from the streets into everyday life, even as repression, war, economic crisis, and new forms of…
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The End of U-Turn Politics: Reza Pahlavi’s Gamble on War and Bloodshed
By staking his political future on foreign military intervention, Reza Pahlavi may have closed off the political reinventions that sustained him for decades. Reza…
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No to War, No to the Islamic Republic: A Third Way That Cannot Be Ignored
A feminist defence of a third way that rejects both foreign aggression and the Islamic Republic’s repression, refusing to sacrifice freedom to geopolitics. I…
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Ceasefire on Paper, War at the Dinner Table
After the ceasefire, Iranians face local wages and global prices, while reconstruction risks restoring profit before rebuilding life. The morning after the war, life…
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Political Shock Therapy
As normalization with the United States becomes thinkable, the Islamic Republic may have to turn its shock therapy inward, targeting its own loyal hardliners.…
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Why Do Some Iranians Celebrate the National Team’s Defeat?
Iran’s national football team has become a battlefield over stolen symbols, collective memory, and who gets to speak in the name of Iran. In…
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The Strait of Hormuz: From Portuguese Forts to Drones and GPS Disruption
Across centuries, Hormuz has remained a passage where control over maritime insecurity gives states leverage over trade, energy, and global power. The military crises…
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Field Report: From War to Inflation, How Crises Erase People with Disabilities
Roya and Zahra’s stories show how poverty, war, inflation, internet shutdowns, and neglect turn disability into structural exclusion in Iran. The stories of Roya…
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: From Anti-Imperialist Hero to Regime Change Candidate
Ahmadinejad’s turn from anti-imperialist icon to reported imperialist coup candidate exposes the danger of mistaking anti-American rhetoric for liberation politics. Remember the image of…
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Celebrity, Power, and Sexual Violence: Why the Pejman Jamshidi Case Matters Beyond the Courtroom
A high-profile rape accusation has become a test of power, gender, silence, and women’s refusal to remain silent in Iran. Pejman Jamshidi is one…
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Iranians in Armenia: No Return, No Stability, Only Survival
Iranians fleeing repression, war, and internet shutdowns find precarious survival in Armenia, where delivery work offers cash but no protection or future. The 40-day…