Cultural

  • Sassanian Persia’s forgotten victory: The tunnel of death in the Syrian Desert

    Sassanian Persia’s forgotten victory: The tunnel of death in the Syrian Desert

    The confrontation unfolded at Dura-Europos, a city on the Euphrates long held by the Roman Empire. By 256 CE, a new and aggressive power had risen in Iran. The Sassanian dynasty under Shapur I replaced the Parthians and pushed westward with relentless force. Shapur’s trilingual inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam (Ka'ba-ye Zartosht) records that during his second invasion of Syria, he crushed a Roman army and captured thirty-seven towns, among them Dura-Europos. After the siege, the city vanished from history for seventeen centuries.

  • The Illusion of the Religious Legitimation of a U.S. War Against Iran

    The Illusion of the Religious Legitimation of a U.S. War Against Iran

  • Ali Larijani: Iran’s Martyr of the Humanities

    Ali Larijani: Iran’s Martyr of the Humanities

    Dr. Ali Larijani was precisely what former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei recently called an «interlocutor». He is the kind of figure the world today is desperately short of. Mediators are those rare individuals who can navigate a world trapped in irreconcilable binaries and steer it toward peace. Our current global order is built on such binaries: they don’t reconcile, they keep fighting, and ordinary people end up paying the price. That dialectical, conciliatory spirit is familiar to anyone who knows German idealism, and it’s no accident that ElBaradei specifically mentioned Larijani’s four books on Immanuel Kant.

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