Nader Rahimi

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.

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Divergent American Hegemonic Responses to Nuclear Ambitions: Why the United States Deters North Korea but Strikes Iran

The nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran pose two of the most persistent and consequential proliferation challenges facing the United States in the post–Cold War era. Yet while both countries have defied Washington’s preferences, the American response has been strikingly different. With North…

The Kurds: Forever the Pawn of Empire

If reports are true that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is arming Kurdish forces in Iraq as part of efforts to destabilize Iran, history is about to repeat itself—yet again. For over a century, the Kurds, the largest stateless people on earth, have been manipulated as instruments of…

The Illusion of American Security in the Persian Gulf: How War Consolidates Power in Tehran

For decades, Washington armed the Persian Gulf Arab states extensively. Expansive military bases, aircraft carrier deployments, integrated air defense systems, and bilateral security agreements were presented as ironclad shields against largely manufactured existential threats—particularly from the…

Imperial Echoes: From Operation Ajax to Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury

“So this is how we get rid of that madman Mossadegh.”In the summer of 1953, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles reportedly held up a copy of a top-secret plan—Operation Ajax—and made that declaration. The operation, engineered by the United States and Great Britain, overthrew Iran’s…

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