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Defending Democracy with Drew Pavlou: Quillette Cetera Episode 34

The student activist discusses the risks that Iran, China, and Russia, and their Western sympathisers, pose to liberal democracies.

Zoe Booth

27 Apr 2024 · 1 min read

Iranian men burn Israeli flag in Tehran .

Iran Contra Israel

The Iranian missile strike against Israel marks a watershed moment in the Middle East conflict, even though it was unsuccessful.

Benny Morris

16 Apr 2024 · 8 min read

The Iranian Connection

Tracing Tehran's ties to the Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah.

Pierre James / Suha Hassen

16 Jan 2024 · 16 min read

Why Iran is the Key to Peace in the Middle East

Many Iranians perceive Israel as a potential ally in their struggle against Islamic oppression.

Armin Navabi

4 Jan 2024 · 10 min read

Shadows No More

A new book examines Israel’s mounting campaign to check Iran.

Brian Stewart

25 Oct 2023 · 6 min read

Justice in Stockholm

Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.

Roya Hakakian

7 Feb 2023 · 19 min read

Will It Be Different This Time?

It is starting to look like a question of when, not if, the Islamic Republic of Iran will fall.

Brian Stewart

19 Nov 2022 · 9 min read

The Great Cover-Up

Islamists used a religious lie to crush Mahsa Amini, but women can win this war.

Asra Q. Nomani

30 Sep 2022 · 8 min read

Roya Hakakian and How to Speak About What No One Wants to Hear

I. Roya Hakakian is an American writer from Iran who commands a distinctive ability to speak about large and horrific events in a chipper tone that appears to underplay the horrific quality and, by apparently underplaying, ends up subtly underlining. It is an artful tone. It is cagey, charming, disarming,

Paul Berman

27 May 2022 · 33 min read

The End of the Islamic Republic of Iran?

The regime is a victim of its own fanaticism, corruption, and incompetence.

Shay Khatiri

11 Oct 2020 · 6 min read

The Fall of Beirut

Except calling Hezbollah merely a terror group is too simplistic, and nothing in Lebanon is ever simple or easy to explain.

Art Keller

28 Aug 2020 · 11 min read

How Iran’s Dictators Laid the Foundation for the Country's Coronavirus Crisis

While the disease itself is, of course, an apolitical phenomenon, Iran’s repressive, theocratic political system has played a role in the especially high toll that coronavirus is taking on the Iranian people.

Shay Khatiri

21 Mar 2020 · 5 min read