Reza Pahlavi
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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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Open Thread –
Open Thread opened with the view that the Iran war looks choreographed and regime change is unlikely, plus a link on the Iranian regime account using the Sun and Lion…
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On Whose Side Is God?
X.T.M argues that planners of the Iran war misread Shia Islam, which honours death with dignity. He says killing Khamenei hands the system a martyr, and that the Pahlavist, secular-liberal…
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Zahak versus Husayni
X.T.M reads Reza Pahlavi’s statement on Khamenei’s death through the Shahnameh’s Zahhak against the Husayni archetype. He weighs contested data on Iranian religiosity and asks who Iran is, with the…
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The Persian captivity
Razib Khan urges readers to study histories beyond the subcontinent, arguing that pastoralist depredations were not unique to India, that Turkic dynasties dominated the Muslim world for a thousand years,…
