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Fighting and Flirting With Tehran Do Not Mix
Iran’s Post-War Power Structure Leaves Washington With No Easy Exit
May 8
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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The Hormuz Nemesis: Why Tehran’s Ultimate Asset Became Its Greatest Threat
How Global Markets are Planning a Future Without Hormuz
May 6
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Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
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Behind Tehran’s Unity Show: The Secret Letter to the Shadow King
While Pezeshkian and Ghalibaf tweet loyalty, a clandestine power struggle over nuclear negotiations is exposing the regime’s deepest fractures.
Apr 24
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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Trump Triggered a Political Storm in Iran Again
Conflicting messages on Hormuz and the negotiations left even pro-system voices demanding clarity.
Apr 17
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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The War’s Central Mistake
How Trump empowered a defeated Islamic Republic by opening talks
Apr 13
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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What Looks Like Resilience in Iran Is Its Collapse Plan
Mar 17
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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The Coercive Sequence: How Trump’s Iran War Actually Works
Mar 26
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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What Javad Zarif Said in Private as the War Began
Apr 3
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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The Last Feather: Why the Islamic Republic May Survive the War but Not the Peace
Mar 31
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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Tehran’s Favorite American: Why the Islamic Republic Prefers JD Vance, and Why That Changes Nothing
How Tehran reads the divisions inside Washington
Apr 11
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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Nezam vs. Vatan: A State at War with Its Nation
A deterrence strategy built to save the system is now putting Iran itself at risk.
Apr 6
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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Zarif’s Illusion of Strategy
A Sidelined Official Speaks for a System That Resists Understanding the Moment
Apr 4
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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What Javad Zarif Said in Private as the War Began
The leaked text that shows another Zarif
Apr 3
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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The Last Feather: Why the Islamic Republic May Survive the War but Not the Peace
Beyond the Battlefield Metrics: A Fundamental Analysis of a Regime in Decline
Mar 31
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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The Coercive Sequence: How Trump’s Iran War Actually Works
Why negotiation and war are part of the same strategy and what critics still fail to see
Mar 26
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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Lipstick on the IRGC: Why Ghalibaf Must Not Be Rebranded as a Pragmatist
He is not a post-Khamenei solution. He is a distilled product of the Khamenei system.
Mar 24
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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Weaponizing Ambiguity: How Trump’s Shadow Diplomacy May Be Fracturing the Islamic Republic
Whether the talks are real or not, the message is already spreading mistrust in Tehran and calming global oil markets.
Mar 23
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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Israel Is Not Just Fighting the Islamic Republic. It Is Classifying It
Why the Rules of Statehood No Longer Apply to the Islamic Republic
Mar 18
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Mehdi Parpanchi
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