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Category: Opinion
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The Road to Beijing Runs Through Tehran
Washington wants to pivot towards China, but Middle Eastern energy, Gulf capital and Iran’s regional power make disengagement far more difficult than US policymakers…
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Poverty in Four Instalments: A Note on SnappPay and Poverty Monetization
In Iran, instalment credit offers short-term relief to cash-strapped consumers, but SnappPay’s merchant commissions raise questions about how platforms may profit from—and potentially deepen—widespread…
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Trump and the Temptation of a Third War: Will the Bombs Wait for the Ballot Box?
With Republicans facing electoral defeat, could Trump turn another war with Iran into a final political gamble, with Iranian lives as the stakes?
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Berlin’s Left Victory Exposes Divisions Within Germany’s Iranian Diaspora
As Germany’s far right gains ground, Die Linke’s Berlin victory exposes divisions among Iranian migrants over immigration, welfare, Palestine and the European right.
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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…