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2025-10-05 21:55
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
A ‘revolution’ pursued by bots
With very few supporters inside or outside Iran, opposition figures use AI-enabled operations to incite revolt
TEHRAN – On June 16th, an X user shared an AI-generated picture of the deposed Shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, seated on a throne, and said, "He will bring Iran freedom and prosperity!" His father, Mohammad Reza Shah, fled Iran twice during his reign: first, when the MI6 and CIA were conspiring to overthrow the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mosaddegh in 1953, and a second time, when he admitted hearing "the voice" of the people's revolution in January 1979.
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2025-09-20 20:03
MI6 admits covert links to HTS during Syria’s regime change
The outgoing chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Richard Moore, has confirmed that London maintained clandestine communications with the extremist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) before the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
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2025/08/19
By Mahmoud Zekavat
An unjustifiable coup
A re-examination of the 1953 coup in Iran
TEHRAN – Simplified, popular narratives often make history shallow, sterile, and politically charged. These oversimplifications wrap around historical events and figures, preventing a clear understanding and often twisting the truth with clichés.
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2023-01-14 22:31
By Faramarz Kuhpayeh
Soldier Negotiator Expert Spy
TEHRAN – “Few men can resist expressing their appetites when they're making a fantasy about themselves.” This sentence from the 2011 Cold War spy thriller film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sums up the story of Alireza Akbari, which came to an end on Saturday.