Islamic Republic of Iran
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The Diaspora Saved The Mullahs. Pahlavi Helped.
X.T.M reports a BP live call with an Iranian guest, Farhad, who argues Reza Pahlavi’s 2022 intervention saved the Islamic Republic. The post says it does not endorse this and…
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Iran and Pakistan Are Not the Same Kind of State
X.T.M argues that Iran cannot be analysed like Pakistan because it is a civilisation-state some three thousand years old. He says authority there rests on inherited ideas, from monarchy to…
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Listening to Iran
X.T.M reports what he heard from people in Iran: severe economic strain, worst in provincial towns, with no wide appetite for monarchy. He argues that China cannot absorb partners’ failures…
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Lord Zoroaster’s Fire Still Burns
X.T.M uses a Molla Nasreddin cartoon of Zoroaster to argue that Persian customs survived Islamisation. He holds that Iran is a civilisation-state, not a regime problem, so Western pressure is…
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How will the Iranian Regime Survive? By Becoming Persian & Crowning a Pahlavi Queen
X.T.M argues that the Iranian regime can survive only by de-ideologising: Islam should become a civilisational substrate with Persian features. He cites the English Restoration as a model, and says…
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L’Opéra, Iran, and the Post-Hindu Condition
Prompted by an interview with an Iranian Bahá’í couple who founded the L’Opéra patisserie in India, the author reflects on the Iranian Revolution and the persecution of Bahá’ís. He asks…
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Why Pakistan Won’t Go the Way of Iran
X.T.M argues that Pakistan will not follow Iran’s path of secularisation because Pakistani Islam is inherited bottom-up and fuelled by Partition’s trauma, whereas Iran’s was imposed in 1979 and so…
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🕊️ On Iran, Israel, and the Right to Self-Defense
The author opposes the Iranian regime but argues that Iran has a right not to be bombed, and condemns Israel’s strikes on its nuclear facilities. The post is a teaser…
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Why I find it difficult to debate Hinditvas + liberal Zionists
The author argues that Pakistan and Iran should be judged as Islamic Republics, but India and Israel, which claim to be liberal democracies, must meet those standards. He says Israel’s…
