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The Twin Wisdoms
In an Iranian digital landscape increasingly fractured by partisan vitriol, vulgarity, and the fog of fake news, this space is a commitment to restrained, academic rigor and clear-headed policy analysis. It is more than a blog; it is a response to a crisis of critical thinking. It is time to heed the call of reason. The Twin Wisdoms (twinwisdoms.org) is the English-language home for Dr Daryoush Mohammad Poor’s essays and critical observations. Its sister site, Malakut (malakut.org), is his…
Episodes
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The Occupation Myth
Podcast Credit: Haidar Mohammed Ali / Anadolu via Reuters Connect [Note: The Reuters Connect page itself says the asset is provided by Anadolu Agency and that…
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Pakistan Between Riyadh and Tehran: Military Ally, Peacemaker
Podcast Source: PBS NewsHour / Reuters An Assessment of Strategic Contradictions and Diplomatic Opportunities The Dual-Role Paradox Pakistan’s deployment of…
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The Manufactured Mirror and the Curated Outrage
Podcast Members of the Iranian diaspora in Perth, Australia, holding a solidarity rally on 10 January 2026 against the Islamic Republic | Source: Wikimedia…
The Twin WisdomsIran’s Unfinished Reckoning
Podcast Photographer: Parastoo Maleki – Unsplash A narrative essay drawn from a dialogue between Hossein Hamdieh and Daryoush Mohammad Poor The Polarised…
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The Ordinary Apocalypse
Podcast On Crossing Borders, Hearing Bombs, and the Stubborn Normality of a Nation at War Based on a first-hand wartime account from Iran by Kazeroun…
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Without the Adjectives: What the Evidence Reveals About Pahlavi’s Political Project
Podcast Introduction In my previous assessments of Reza Pahlavi’s political project, published on this blog during the 2026 US–Iran conflict, I employed…
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The Zwartboek Mirror
Podcast On Dutch Collaboration, Iranian Compradors, and the Price of Borrowed Salvation Still from Black Book (Zwartboek, 2006), dir. Paul Verhoeven. Rachel…
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War Unseen, War Unleashed
Podcast Photographer/Creator: Levi Meir Clancy / Source: Unsplash The loudest war drums in the diaspora are often beaten by people with no skin in the game at…
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The House Slave at the Microphone
Podcast Credit: © ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Live News On the Comprador Character in the Iranian Diaspora and the Collapse of Borrowed Salvation A Character…
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A Vendetta with a Flag
Podcast Alain ROLLAND © European Union 2023, Licensed under CC BY 4.0 Reza Pahlavi wants his throne back, and he is willing to see Iran broken to get it. For…
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The Copernican Revolution of the Iranian Mind
Podcast Hamid Dabashi on Sovereignty, Selfhood, and the End of Western Validation Based on a conversation between Hossein Hamdieh and Hamid Dabashi The Day…
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Wounded, Not Defeated: On the Endurance of a People and the Failure of Shortcuts
Podcast Chah Kouran Caravanserai, a Qajar era brick building visible from the road while driving. This is a response to a comment by Kayvan Hosseini, a…
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The Man With No Alternative
Podcast AP Photo / via The Intercept On Reza Pahlavi, the Monarchist Fallacy, and the Corruption of Logic A ceasefire has come into effect between the United…
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Je Me Souviens: After Mahshahr
Podcast Photo by Jerry “Woody” / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 The Iranian diaspora keeps sending its people to the barricades. The people at the barricades…
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Iran’s Digital Dead End: Why Internet Shutdowns Guarantee Strategic Obsolescence
Podcast Credit: Georgia Tech Internet Intelligence Lab – IODA (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis), Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis Iran’s…
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Stone Age-ism
Podcast The severed B1 Bridge — the tallest in the Middle East — after US-Israeli airstrikes, April 2, 2026. (Photo: NBC News) Lapis Aetatem Complicitatis —…
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Why Reza Pahlavi Still Matters
Podcast Supporters of Iran’s last crown prince, now key opposition figure, Reza Pahlavi hold a banner reading “He is coming – Make Iran Great Again” and…
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Observations from Inside the War
Podcast Image credit: Photo by Iranian Red Crescent / UPI A Witness Account from the Interior of a Nation at War By Ali Abdi, revised narrative by Daryoush…
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At the Threshold of Surrender
Podcast Image credit: Source: Unsplash On Disillusionment and the Refusal to Close the Door This piece is the product of my reflections on a voice message from…
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Every Additional Week of Conflict Benefits Iran Strategically
Podcast Image credit: Majid Asgaripour / WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS Why an Immediate Ceasefire Is the Only Viable Option The most plausible…
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Why the Case for Ceasefire Stands
Podcast UN Secretary-General António Guterres receives the Ataturk International Peace Prize from President Erdogan of Türkiye in Ankara. Responding to Critics…
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The Depth Illusion: How Philosophical Scaffolding Disguises the Banality of War Apologism
Podcast Image credit: Photo by Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash A Diagnostic Framework for Identifying Logical Fallacies in the Rhetoric of Humanitarian…
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The Elegy They Earned
PodcastOn the Destruction of Humanities in Iran — First by the Republic, Now by Those Who Claim to Oppose It One of the defining legacies of Ali Khamenei — the…
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The Pen Against the Bomb
PodcastHacking War with the Only Weapon We Have Left For S. S. who planted the seed of this essay in my mind. The Ominous Timing of War It is ominous—and it…
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The Aryan Ghost: What the War on Iran Should Teach the Arab World
PodcastThe Slogan That Should Alarm Everyone There is a slogan circulating with increasing confidence among a visible segment of the Iranian monarchist…
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Civilisational Katharsis or Resurgence of Fascism
PodcastIt is now pretty established that the most dominant voice on the social media belongs to an increasingly visible faction of the supports of monarchy…
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Self-Amputation as Liberation
PodcastSomething broke in Iran after 2009 — not in the corridors of power, where repression merely recalibrated, but in the interior of a society that had…
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Civilisation and Its Arsonists
PodcastA Nawruz Reflection on War, Hypocrisy, and the Promise of Renewal Before I begin, allow me to share a simple thought—one expressed beautifully by the…
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The Iran We Still Refuse to See: A Response to The Economist
PodcastThis essay is a response to The Economist article, “Why Ali Khamenei May Have Welcomed the Nature of His Death,” published on 3 March 2026. This…
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Homo Exsul Furens
PodcastThe Raging Exile: On the Behavioural Pathology of Victim-Perpetrators A necessary preface. This essay targets no race, no ethnicity, no nation, no…
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The Pathology of Political Metaphor
PodcastOn the Cancer of Calling Others Cancer A certain rot has taken hold of political discourse—one that begins the moment we cease to see our adversaries as…
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The Paradox of Expectations
Podcast A Regime That Does Not Cooperate With Its Own DownfallAn Israeli journalist recently made ironic commentary on President Trump’s war strategy…
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The Skewed Lens of “The Right Side of History”
PodcastOn the Weaponisation of Historical Morality and the Erasure of Conscience There is a phrase that circulates through political rhetoric with the…
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When the Dead Are Counted Twice: Inflated Atrocities and the Manufacture of Indifference
PodcastThere is a particular cruelty in inflating the number of the dead. It does not honour the victims — it instrumentalises them. And when the inflation is…
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The Burning Building and the Monitoring Room: Iran, Diaspora, and the Moral Architecture of War
PodcastThe fracture at the heart of the Iranian crisis is not, at its deepest level, a disagreement about strategy, ideology, or even the legitimacy of the…
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When Silence Cannot Be Mistaken for Consent: A Defense of Diaspora Voice
PodcastA thoughtful critic argues that my essay commits a fundamental inversion by shifting moral scrutiny away from the conditions producing violence in Iran…
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Speculators in Suffering: The Moral Bankruptcy of Diaspora War Advocacy
PodcastThere is a peculiar species of political actor that emerges from every fractured nation—those who, having escaped the inferno, appoint themselves…
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While You Celebrate
PodcastA VOICE FROM THE FIRE: What the Diaspora Doesn’t Want to Hear “They killed 168 children in a school. They hit the school twice. TWICE.” These aren’t…
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The Sanctuary of My Conscience
PodcastI write this in English because the collapse of our shared morality is not a local tragedy; it is a human one. I am calling for a spotlight, not merely…
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You Don’t Want Our Freedom—You Want Our Destruction
PodcastIran has infrastructure. Iran’s infrastructure is not the Islamic Republic’s infrastructure. It’s that simple. Even if the IRGC uses the bridges…
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Bread, Lead, and the Logic of Revenge
PodcastThink about this situation carefully—don’t run away. Be honest with yourself and with your conscience. This is not an easy test. It is not meant to be…
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Trading in Pain: Inside–Outside Iran and the Emotional Market of Politics
PodcastThe fracture between Iranians living under the Islamic Republic and those in the diaspora is not, at its core, a political disagreement. It is something…