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Category: Opinion
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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…
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The Tragedy of Self-Immolation Among Street Vendors in Iran
Ahmad Baledi, a young Ahvazi Arab student, self-immolated after municipal agents violently demolished his family’s kiosk, igniting public outrage, repression, and renewed attention to…
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Gross Human Rights Violations at the Andirgan Gold Mine: Direct Fire on Protesters
Andirgan is not an isolated episode; it exposes the Islamic Republic’s structural securitization of social, economic, and environmental demands—especially intensified in ethnic regions like…
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Opinion: The West Still Misreads Iran’s Soul
When the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council issued a joint statement on October 6, demanding that Iran end its “occupation” of three…
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Teaching Through Repression: How Iran’s Educators Kept the Movement Alive Over the Past Year
Amid intensified crackdowns, Iran’s teachers sustained nationwide organizing, faced mass dismissals and arrests, built cross-movement solidarity, and demanded an end to securitized schooling, recognition…