Seyed Mohammad Marandi
Professor of English Literature and Orientalism; Head of the American Studies department at the University of Tehran
America’s Final Act of Revenge Against Afghans
The current plan of action chosen by the US is to carry out collective punishment against the battered population of Afghanistan. The US intends to impose maximum misery upon the whole population through punitive sanctions.
Iran and the US: Checking the Scoreboard After the Afghanistan Withdrawal
"You have the watches, but we have the time” - Ancient Afghan proverb
The Flight from Kabul and the Legacy of General Soleimani
Iran has strong reason to believe that the sudden withdrawal of western forces was designed to create instability and chaos in Afghanistan.
President Raisi and the Continued Expectations of Appeasement in the ‘West’
Western analysts and pseudo-experts often confuse their own wishful thinking and Orientalist expectations with reality.
The Forever Imminent Collapse of the Iranian “Regime”
As Iran is literally depicted as illegitimate and derogatorily labeled a “regime,” these “experts” can inform their audiences without irony of the rising “menace” of Iran and the growing threat it poses to regional stability.
The Humiliating US Retreat from Afghanistan and Implications for Iraq and Syria
the US sacrificed the people of Afghanistan twice: In service of US Cold War machinations, where it introduced Wahhabi terror to the country, then again, after 2001 when it compounded the suffering of the population under the pretense of fighting terrorism
A Rising Resistance and the Decline of an Arrogant Empire
The world is rapidly changing and the US no longer commands the feared authority that it once enjoyed.