Iranian regime

Iranian Power Politics, Shiite Banana Republics and Their Minions 

The last statement of Abdallah Bou Habib (the so-called Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lebanon), insofar as the military presence of Hezbollah in South Lebanon, reflects the instructions of his mentors and the state of subordination of the cabinet, formed by Najib Mikati, to its diktat. The purported legitimacy of this cabinet should be questioned ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran and the End of a Murderous Dystopia

The Iranian tempestuous power projections in the larger Middle East, the militarization of national security, the repeated attempts at creating an international authoritarian counter-order, and the false sense of omnipotence and ubiquitousness are hardly tested with the derailment of the war objectives set after the October 7, 2023 attack in South ...

How Iranian Filmmaker Rasoulof Fled His Country on Foot

Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, director Mohammad Rasoulof undertook an "exhausting and extremely dangerous" walk across a mountainous border to avoid imprisonment in Iran for national security reasons. Film director Mohammad Rasoulof made an "exhausting and extremely dangerous" walk across a mountainous borderland in ...

Squaring the Circle

Political analysts are quite puzzled when they observe that negotiations in the Middle East are taking place between the US and the Iranian regime, which claims exclusive representation over the whole region. Twenty-two Arab states have no say over conflicts putting at stake their security, regional peace and international incidences. What is ...