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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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A Nation That Funds War, Not Science
Over the past decade, the United States has entered a sustained phase of military expansion accompanied by widening geopolitical commitments and renewed great-power competition. While this trajectory is routinely justified in the language of national security, it exposes a deeper structural reality…
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Empire Without Occupation: Intervention, Oil, and the Reconfiguration of Sovereignty
The overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh on August 19, 1953, stands as one of the most consequential coups of the twentieth century, marking a decisive moment in the consolidation of modern imperialist intervention. Operation Ajax was not merely the removal of a democratically legitimate, anti-…
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Manufacturing Threat, Managing Power: A Critical Analysis of the U.S.-Israel War with Iran
War is often explained through a familiar set of causes: competition for power and security, economic interests, nationalism, ideology, and state weakness. These factors remain useful, but applied uncritically, they risk becoming formulaic—describing conflict in general without explaining this…
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Rethinking Strategies for Political Change in Iran: A Realist Perspective
For decades, Iranian opposition movements and their Western backers have relied on a familiar toolkit to induce political change: economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, information campaigns, assassinations, and at times military confrontation. From a critical perspective, these instruments are…