Siyavash Shahabi
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Two Kinds of Empty Desks in Iran. Children Who Never Made It to School, and Children Who Are No Longer Alive - Valigia Blu (opens the original)
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Iran’s new school year has begun with thousands of empty seats. Some children could not return to school because of poverty, work, early marriage or exclusion from education. Others were killed in the suppression of protests or in military attacks. These absences do not have the same cause, but together they offer a picture of a society in which children are paying, all at once, the price of inequality, political violence and war. The school year in Iran begins on the first day of Mehr, which th
The Arithmetic of Fear: Funeral Propaganda and the Fragility of the Iranian Regime - Valigia Blu (opens the original)
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I watched Ali Khamenei's funeral from Athens, on state feeds and drone footage, the way most Iranians abroad watched it. Nothing in the spectacle surprised me. States bury their rulers with state resources. The Islamic Republic set the template in 1989, when roughly ten million people attended Khomeini's funeral, a figure Guinness recorded as the highest attendance share in any burial in history. A government organizing an enormous funeral for its dead leader is normal politics. The scandal lies
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