Iran, Imperial Pinkwashing, and the Afterlife of a Captured Revolution

The false binary of clerical authoritarianism versus Western liberalism is precisely what sustains Iran’s crisis. Each pole feeds the other. External threats, sanctions, and war rhetoric provide the theocratic state with a permanent alibi: dissent becomes treason, protest becomes collaboration, and repression is recast as national defence.   By Arkadeep Goswami   Iran today occupies […]