Category - Politics

The article argues that Iran's clerical regime, empowered by the 1979 Revolution and enforced through the IRGC, has used Shia narratives of martyrdom and anti-Israel hostility to preserve its own authority and suppress democratic reform, more out of fear of Western liberal influence than historical grievance. It concludes that Iran's nuclear ambitions and proxy warfare are self-defeating, urging Tehran to abandon isolationism for pragmatic diplomacy.