A faithful worker
Gathering of industrial factory workers in support of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Thinking Iran Beyond Spectacle: The Researcher’s Duty to Separate Layers.
For an Iranian researcher living abroad, war does not arrive as a distant event. It enters daily life in fragments: messages not answered, headlines that conceal as much as they reveal, rumors that travel faster than facts, and a constant sense that one is living in two realities at once. One reality is orderly, institutional,…
Malcolm X and the U.S.–Israel War Against Iran
Malcolm X was one of the prominent African American thinkers. He was deeply engaged with what he called the “cancer of racism.” He believed that the United States was fundamentally built upon this cancer. If we were to translate this concept into contemporary philosophical language, we could say that Americans—or more precisely, white people, who…
The Market of Violence and the Accounting of Deception: A Paradoxical Analysis of the Immigrant Opposition Lobby in Reducing the Final Cost of War for Aggressors and Undermining the Strategic Credibility of the United States
To truly understand the impact of those Iranian emigrants who, on the eve of major tensions, solicited international media to attack their own homeland, it is necessary to go beyond the simplistic, naive dichotomy of the “primary actor” versus the “ineffective actor.” International relations theory and decision-making documents from Washington and Tel Aviv demonstrate that…
Diplomacy in the Context of Great Power Competition: A Strategic Assessment of Iran–United States Negotiations and the Necessity of Geopolitical Balancing
Abstract Recent developments in Iran–United States negotiations are unfolding at a time when West Asia has become a focal point of geopolitical competition among major powers. Given this complexity, nuclear negotiations can no longer be viewed merely as a bilateral matter; they must instead be analyzed within the broader framework of strategic rivalry among global…
The Oil Market Breaking Point
In this special editorial feature, we provide an executive summary of a critical analysis by HFI Research. This briefing explores the catastrophic implications of the current Strait of Hormuz closure, highlighting why this geopolitical choke point has become the ultimate “breaking point” for the global economy. Institutional Brief: Who is HFI Research? HFI Research is…
The flag that never falls
In Tehran, residents take turns keeping Iran’s flag raised high.
Three Phases of a Shifting Narrative: Germany, Iran, and the Media War
Dispatches from Germany iraninsider.com Writing from Germany, I find myself in an unusual position: watching a narrative collapse in real time. What the mainstream media here presented as certainty in the early days of this conflict has undergone a remarkable, if largely unacknowledged, reversal. To understand why, it helps to understand the room in which…
A bus that rekindles hope in people’s hearts
The story of a group of citizens who strive to restore motivation and hope among their fellow residents by offering free services in different neighborhoods across the city.
The Selective Conscience of Science in an Age of Imperial Power
The modern global order continues to operate within a structure shaped by imperial power—one that resists true sovereignty for nations outside its sphere of control. A sovereign country governs its own resources, knowledge, and future. That independence limits external influence. For that reason, it is often not tolerated. Instead, regimes that comply with dominant Western…