They Don’t Feel Like We Do
Now, Washington and its commentariat, in 2026, have a brilliant new idea: The High Iranian Pain Threshold.
Tagged: Iran
Out of the Iranian rubble into the cinematic frame
Smuggled out of the Iran Iraq War at age four with exactly two suitcases, Arash Sedighi channels the gritty survival of his refugee childhood into uncompromising British cinema
O Iranians!
The antidote to a scorpion’s poison is not the venom of a snake.
The Whore of Babylon
Get lost with the whore of Babylon.
The World’s Busiest Natural Reserve Has Never Charged Admission. Let’s Pay Now.
Before Iran began charging for the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz was charging Iran — and no one was paying.
Christ Stopped at Eboli
"And once the trap was fully set, it revealed its political idea: the 'sweet world' of the Pahlavi era."
A Framework for Regional Stability and Long-Term Peace with Iran
The immediate dismissal of Francesca Albanese must be guaranteed.
The Man Who Knelt Down (In Defense of Artists Living in Iran)
“Those Iranians in the diaspora who do not understand the tragic nature of life easily draw moral lines.”
A Leader of the Modern Age in Medieval Robes and Turbans
“For an Iranian, contradiction is not a philosophical decoration of life. Contradiction is life itself.”
Your golden hair, Fatemeh! Your greying hair, Masoud!
The regime publishes the ID numbers of the dead. Mohsen Namjoo sets names to chords. Let’s see which archive survives longer.