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2026/02/08
Beyond the colonial gaze: Rethinking Iran on its own terms
By Xavier Villar
MADRID – The concept of a colonial toolbox remains a potent but often under-examined framework for understanding contemporary international discourse. It does not refer to a physical object, but to the enduring repertoire of practices, epistemologies, and governmental rationalities developed by imperial centers to categorize, manage, and ultimately subordinate colonized populations.
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2026/01/05
By Xavier Villar
Administered states, contained fortresses, legal relics
What the US war on Iran and its kidnapping of Maduro mean for world’s future
MADRID – Nicolas Maduro was not extradited. He was kidnapped. The distinction belongs not to legal semantics but to constitutive political violence.
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2025-12-24 19:53
Algeria declares French colonization a crime, demands reparations
Algeria’s parliament unanimously approved a law on Wednesday declaring France’s colonization of the country a crime and demanded an apology and reparations, the Guardian reported.
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2025-12-01 14:55
Venezuela: Next stop in the campaign to topple sovereign nations
TEHRAN – “The people of South America—in Venezuela and the other countries of the region—are profoundly calm by nature and deeply averse to tension and confrontation.”
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2025/11/28
By Xavier Villar
The rise of sovereign voices after decades-old persistence of a Western monologue
For centuries, the relationship between what is conventionally called “the West” and the rest of the world has been narrated as a monologue.
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2025-11-15 17:48
Documentary series explores historical roots of European colonialism
TEHRAN — A new documentary series titled “Colonialism, the Story of a History” examines the origins and historical development of colonialism in Europe.
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2025/11/09
By Xavier Villar
Iran and the political construction of a complex identity
MADRID – In the tumultuous arena of global politics, few nations bear symbols as dense and varied as Iran. But while each of these images belongs to a distinct narrative, they all coexist within the body of a single state.
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2025-11-03 21:13
By Nawaf Al-Zaru
Terror as doctrine: How Zionist ideology weaponized violence to invent its past
AMMAN – This ongoing spectacle of Zionist terror and criminality — now in policies of extermination in Gaza and extending across the length and breadth of Palestine — is driven by a deliberate ideology, strategy, and malevolent set of objectives.