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Category Archives: Iran
The Islamabad Memorandum Is Just Words
The verdicts arrived before the ink. Within hours of the announcement, commentators called the Islamabad Memorandum a surrender, a triumph, a betrayal, a masterstroke. They scored it the way men score a fight they did not watch. The document runs … Continue reading
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Iran Launches Fresh Missile Attacks On Israel (6-7-26)
01:00 Autumn Gold film, https://www.autumngoldfilm.com/02:00 Autumn Gold: Secrecy, Time, and the Recovery of Truth, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=19096803:00 Eric Longabardi: An Investigative Journalist Between Two Media Orders, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=19094908:00 Project Shad, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAD10:00 Project 112, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_11221:00 Operation Tailwind, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tailwind23:00 CBS Evening News broke the story … Continue reading
Alliance Theory and the Iran War
Whenever I hear professional commentators opine on the Iran War, I only recall them saying what their alliance position predisposes them to say. I can’t think of any exceptions. Opinions on the war largely track opinions on Trump. What the … Continue reading
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Rodney Martin & Press TV
Rodney Martin (b. 1969) lives north of Los Angeles. He retired in 2009 from a firm that did land development and government relations, and he served for a time on the staff of a U.S. Congressman handling military and veteran … Continue reading
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The Buffered, The Porous & The Iran War
When Trump-aligned voices call Democratic critics of the Iran war traitors, the charge does not function as legal description or strategic argument. It functions as boundary defense. Charles Taylor (b. 1931) developed the distinction between the buffered self and the … Continue reading
Stephen P. Turner Against Essentialism: Iran, the IRGC, and the Evolutionary Sociology of Institutions
Much contemporary commentary on the Islamic Republic of Iran suffers from conceptual instability. Analysts oscillate between two inadequate explanatory frameworks. On one side lies a naïve voluntarism that treats all political actors as indefinitely malleable and assumes that sufficient diplomatic … Continue reading
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The Press TV Americans Face Their War
The war with Iran began February 28, 2026. By mid-April the Pentagon had spent $18 billion and requested $200 billion more, damage to Iran ran past $300 billion, Arab states absorbed over $120 billion in costs, and the Strait of … Continue reading
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‘The Lamps Are Going Out’
Christopher Caldwell writes in the Claremont Review of Books: Westad astutely notes that the Industrial Revolution was, in its own way, an information revolution avant la lettre. The speed with which fast trains allowed countries to mobilize troops, and with … Continue reading
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The Chair Of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Caine, Thought The 2026 Iran War Was A Terrible Idea
Here is what grabbed my attention from today’s blockbuster in the New York Times: The C.I.A. director used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister’s regime change scenarios: “farcical.” At that point, Mr. Rubio cut in. “In other words, … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Iran’s Next Supreme Leader
Stephen Turner describes the convenient belief, a claim a man holds for what it does for him rather than for its truth. Convenient beliefs run hot in Tehran right now. They circulate in the new Supreme Leader’s fortified residence, the … Continue reading
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