به سوی آینده‌ای بر پایه‌ی «مِهر» برای ایران اصلاحات همچنان واقع‌بینانه‌ترین و پرطرفدارترین راه برای تغییر سیاسی در ایران است. تقریباً همه‌ی اقشار جامعه بر این باورند که اصلاحات غیر خشونت‌آمیز به‌مراتب بهتر از دگرگونی‌های پرهزینه و ویرانگر است. اما پرسش تعیین‌کننده این است: چه نوع اصلاحاتی می‌تواند واقعاً ساختارهای

چرا ایران ماندگار شد، اما روم نه؟ ایران بیش از ۲۶۰۰ سال است که هویت ملی خود را حفظ کرده، باوجوداینکه بارها مورد هجوم بیگانگان و تغییر حکومت‌ها قرار گرفته است. این پایداری تنها ناشی از موقعیت جغرافیایی یا قدرت نظامی نبوده؛ ریشه‌ی آن در فلسفه‌های سیاسی و ساختارهای فرهنگی

Iran At A Crossroads: Reviving Mehr For Regional Peace And Prosperity – OpEd Iran stands at a critical juncture, grappling with decades of authoritarian mismanagement, economic collapse, and failed regional ambitions. Following defeats in Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, the regime faces geopolitical isolation, economic devastation, and social fragmentation. However, history

Entrepreneurship, And Ethical Governance: A Comparative Study Of Ludwig Von Mises And The Political Mehr Of Ancient Iran – OpEd This article explores the convergence of Ludwig von Mises’s economic philosophy of self-reliance and entrepreneurship with the ancient Iranian political tradition of Mehr, as reconstructed in Cosmology of Mehr and

Democracy, Entrepreneurship, and the Social Foundations of Governance Democracy, Entrepreneurship, and the Social Foundations of GovernanceDemocracy has often been romanticized as the pinnacle of political development, a moral ideal to whichall societies should aspire. Yet history suggests otherwise. Democracy has rarely functioned as a self-sufficient end. Instead, it has been

Why the Opposition Must Build a Visionary and Ethical Alternative to Prevent Collapse The 12-day war between Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran shattered not only the regime’s military credibility but also exposed the structural weaknesses within the Iranian opposition. While the regime lost much of its deterrent power

Political Upheaval and the Long Reawakening of Identity The fall season in Iran has historically coincided with decisive moments of political rupture. In 1978,mass demonstrations in the autumn months helped bring down the Pahlavi monarchy. In 2019, a suddenfuel price increase in November triggered one of the deadliest uprisings of

Vision, Alta Narrative, and the Collapse of Agency This article examines the Iranian opposition’s chronic failure to establish domestic legitimacy in the faceof a weakened yet resilient regime. Drawing on legitimacy theory (Beetham, Scharpf) and literature oncontentious politics (Tilly, Bayat), it argues that the opposition’s inability to articulate a future-orientedvision

Rewriting Civilization: Reclaiming Mehr And The Suppressed Ethical Nexus – OpEd The narrative of Western exceptionalism, developed during the Enlightenment and solidified through colonial expansion, portrays European civilization as the pinnacle of human rationality, political progress, and moral development. This narrative involved a selective interpretation of ancient history. Greece was