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2026-02-23 21:45
By Mir Mohammad Alikhan
Shattered myths and unbroken spirit: Witnessing the true heart of Iran
As I was sitting in the plane about to take off from the Islamabad airport to Tehran, I was thinking about all the stories I'd heard over the years—the endless media narratives painting Iran as a nation in turmoil, its people supposedly rising up against their own government, desperate for outside intervention.
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2025-12-24 22:20
By Fatemeh Kavand
‘Who can solve Iran’s many problems?’; created the fire, claims the hose
A recent New York Times’ report on Iran , titled “who can solve Iran’s many problems? Not I, says the president”, is not an attempt to grapple with the country’s complex economic and political realities. It is a carefully constructed narrative exercise—one that deliberately removes decisive external factors in order to assign responsibility for Iran’s challenges in a narrowly defined, politically convenient way. What emerges is not journalism in the classical sense, but narrative warfare by other means.
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2025/11/24
By Fatemeh Kavand
The real Iran vs. the Iran of Western imagination
A recent Foreign Affairs article about Iran’s future is a clear example of the deep gap between the real Iran and the imaginary Iran constructed in Western think-tanks.