Without a doubt, the dawn of Sunday, March 1, brought me the most bitter and shocking news of my life: “The Leader of the Revolution has been martyred.” Even now, more than three months later, I still feel suspended in a state of disbelief and uncertainty. Usually, one tries to fully comprehend an event before…
The outbreak of the direct Iran–Israel military confrontation first on 13 June 2025 and its second round from 28 February 2026 marked a historic rupture in West Asian geopolitics. What had long been a shadow conflict—fought through allies, cyber operations, and covert strikes—transitioned into open interstate warfare with global implications. As for the official narrative…
Introduction Iran’s stringent control—and potential blockade—of the Strait of Hormuz should not be viewed through the narrow lens of “energy security” or a mere “transit crisis.” Rather, it represents a calculated geopolitical strike targeting two simultaneous objectives: the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) and the Abraham Accords. By activating its geographical leverage, Tehran has demonstrated…
Introduction: Current negotiations between Iran and the United States suggest a “temporary pause” rather than a genuine scent of “peace.” Any agreement that fails to identify the aggressor, secure war reparations, establish fact-finding committees, and provide comprehensive sanctions relief is not a resolution; it is merely a rescheduling of the next conflict. 1. The Riddle…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
