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Category: Opinion
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Blood-Soaked Maturity: Grief, Resistance, and Responsibility After the Mass Killings
After mass killings, this essay centers collective responsibility: rejecting reckless calls and war rhetoric by self-appointed leaders abroad, and turning grief into durable, life-protecting…
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Undeclared Martial Law in Tehran: Propaganda, Curfew, and the Architecture of Bloody Repression
Tehran and other cities face an undeclared curfew, coercion, darkness, and plainclothes repression—de facto martial law after a massacre—despite the regime’s normalization campaign. The…
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Iran’s Protest Cycles: Exclusion, Contention, and the Path to Anti-Discriminatory Politics
A compact way to read the last decade of Iranian protest waves is to treat them as the political expression of a specific accumulation…
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An Analysis of Slogans from the First Six Days of the Nationwide Dey 1404 Protests in Iran
Anti-regime slogans are composed of 65% targeting Khamenei/the Islamic Republic, 20% invoking Pahlavi, and 14% focused on economic demands—while democracy, organization, and “Woman, Life,…
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Islamic Republic 2025: Solomon’s Palace and a Corpse Leaning on a Staff
In 2025, economic breakdown and war shattered the Islamic Republic’s core claim—security—leaving a regime that looks intact yet hollow, like a corpse propped up…
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Iran’s Vanishing State: Inflation, Boycotts, and “Statelessness”
Post-war price shocks expose a hollowed-out state: officials shrug, markets rule, boycotts spread, and society faces intensified repression alongside the risk—and possibility—of rupture. After…
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Universities in the Grip of Three Crises: Securitization, Marketization and Banalization
On Iran’s Student Day, 16 Azar, universities confront securitization, marketization and banalization while searching for ways to revive a broken, generationally fragmented movement. Every…
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The Plunder of Bisotoun Forest: Killing Trees and Paving the Way for Real-Estate Speculation
How a 50-year-old forest beside the Bisotoun World Heritage site is deliberately run down, logged and primed for real-estate speculation — exposing a deeper…
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The Revival of Compulsory Hijab
Iran’s quiet reactivation of compulsory hijab mechanisms—morality police, service denial, and informal bill enforcement—deepens state control over women, violates core human rihts rights, and…
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Reducing Fuel Subsidies in Iran: Economic Necessity or Political Instrument?
The removal of energy subsidies around the world is used as a tool for development, social justice, and a transition to clean energy. In…
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Tehran’s Water Rationing: From Climate Crisis to Social Inequality and Governance Failure
Tehran’s unprecedented drought and unannounced water rationing expose deep social inequalities and governance failure, as the wealthy bypass shortages, the poor bear the risks,…
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Bread or Missiles? The State’s Official Policy in a Year of Turmoil
Iran’s leadership prioritizes missile power over basic welfare, pouring scarce resources into the military amid inflation, poverty, drought and collapse, leaving governance paralyzed while…