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Nader Rahimi
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Nader Rahimi is a scientist, poet, translator, professor, and political activist. He is the author of Songs of Being and translator of The Scarlet Stone and Other Poems by the celebrated Persian poet Siavash Kasrai. His third collection of poetry, Water Lily Kingdom, is the winner of Moonstone Press’s 2025 Chapbook Contest. His other writings and translations appear in numerous anthologies from Moonstone Press anthologies and in Parsagon: The Persian Literature Review.
Recent Articles by Author
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The Measure of Democracy
Elections do not mean democracy.A ballot can count every voteand still leave the people unheard.We are invited to choose the handsthat will hold the levers,but not who built the machine,who owns it,who profits from its workings,or who decides where it takes us.We choose the hands.Others set the…
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Iraq: 23 Years Later, Still Not Sovereign
In 2003, George W. Bush’s administration invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein on the pretext that his regime possessed and was developing weapons of mass destruction that posed a grave threat to the United States and the world. Those weapons were never found. As the war dragged on, the…
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Who Owns Iran's Future? War, Regime Change, and the Politics of “Iranian Zionism”
Although the United States-Israeli military campaign against Iran may appear to have entered a period of reduced intensity, there is no peace on the horizon. Instead, the warfare has moved into another arena. What began with an extraordinary campaign of airstrikes and the targeted killing of senior…
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The U.S.-Iran War Needs a New Theory of Victory
Wars are usually evaluated through the vocabulary of victory. Territory is seized or recovered. Military capabilities are destroyed. Governments are coerced. Leaders surrender or fall. Eventually, one side is declared the winner. But not every war ends that way. Some wars end in a less satisfying…