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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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America’s Suez Moment in the Middle East
While many observers and critics describe the current confrontation between the United States, Israel, and Iran as a quagmire, stalemate, or even a “new Vietnam” for the United States, the crisis may be better understood through a different historical analogy: the 1956 Suez Crisis. The Suez…
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No Kings, No Clerics, No War: From One Pit Into Another
The recent resurgence of monarchist politics around Reza Pahlavi—son of the former shah of Iran—particularly following the war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran, has intensified debates about the future of political opposition to the Islamic Republic. For many Iranians, opposition to…
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No Government Should Have the Power to Kill
The death penalty is not justice. It is the deliberate, calculated killing of a human being by a government that claims moral authority through law. Every execution is an assertion that the state possesses not only the power to govern life, but the authority to extinguish it. The consequences of…
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Simulated Democracy: Money, Maps, and Manufacturing Representation
In the United States, democratic legitimacy has increasingly been undermined by structural distortions embedded within the electoral system itself. For decades, political influence has been shaped not only by voters, but also by lobbying networks, corporate financing, and concentrated donor power,…