Persicus Maximus

Probably one of the more interesting aspects of Iran’s not so far history...We should travel back almost a century and imagine the world of the First World War to understand the environment in which our article unfolds… In those days, Iran as a nation and country was struggling to survive the last stages of a dying feudal hierarchy based on an absolute monarchy system. The Monarchy itself, was trying to survive the times with all the revolts and revolutions, probably only surviving because of the foreign support it was receiving. (very much like the Monarchies of the southern Persian gulf tribal states)........This objective was being achieved through constant yielding and accepting too many wishes and granting too much influence to the two super powers of the time, Russia and Britain, and all that regardless of Iran's national interests. The Iranian shortcomings in dealing with these super powers and the granting of so much privilege to them surpassed all levels of toleranc...

One of the many strange paradoxes promoted for decades in the Western narrative on the Islamic Republic of Iran - consistently repeated by so-called "Iran experts", government officials, and the Western propaganda machine in general - is that Iran is growing increasingly unstable and unpopular (if not imploding), yet simultaneously it is on the rise and its "menacing" influence can be felt throughout the region and beyond. Of course, the internal contradictions of this discourse are linked to Orientalist stereotypes and attitudes prevalent in the West among mainstream secular liberals, pseudo-progressives, and neo-conservatives alike, who cannot grasp the possibility of a stable and legitimate political order that is not based on Western "values". For such people - even those critical of Western support for despots, extremism, apartheid in Palestine, mass surveillance and cyber warfare, hegemony, liberal capitalism, plutocracy, secret prison...