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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.
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2025-05-03 22:12
By Xavier Villar
Fires in occupied Palestine: A reminder of the Zionist colonial project
MADRID – Israel faces an ecological crisis as forest fires ravage the woods near occupied Al-Quds. For two consecutive days, firefighting teams have struggled to control the flames, which have forced the evacuation of thousands of people and the closure of major communication routes.
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2025-04-27 23:05
By Sahar Dadjoo
India-Pakistan conflict: The long-term impact of US strategy on South Asia
TEHRAN - Western policies, particularly those of the United States, have played a complex and influential role over recent decades in the spread of terrorism and the escalation of regional tensions, especially between India and Pakistan.
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2025-04-14 21:53
Algeria orders 12 French embassy staff to leave within 48 hours
Algeria has ordered 12 French embassy officials to leave the country within 48 hours, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot confirmed on Monday, Euro News reported
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2023-10-31 23:02
Raisi: Gaza events indicative of colonial crimes against human rights
TEHRAN- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi described the Israeli aggression agaisnt the Gaza Strip as a clear indication of the evil of colonial countries against the rights of people and nations.
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2023-09-26 21:41
By Elham Reza Dashti
How West Africa’s economy is held captive by France
NIGERIA - France used to rule West Africa and most of its other colonial territories through the "Indigénat" or the “Empire of Law”. Paris exerted dominance on Africans through various cruel and inhumane laws and regulations.
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2023-09-26 21:39
By Amir Bahram Arab Ahmadi
French colonial empire: Past and present
French Colonial endeavor in West Africa began in 1637 when various generals and wealthy French men started exploring the continent.
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2023-09-26 21:36
By Agbor Desmond Tabe
France-Afrique a relationship of inconvenience
CAMEROON - From a master-servant relationship to a paternalist relationship, France-Afrique was born. France-Afrique is a social, political, and economic project engineered by De Gaulle in the 1960s to maintain and protect French interests in Africa.