The Collective Psychology of Anger/ Mehdi Anbari

In both narratives, there is a moment when time seems to stop—a moment when the individual or the family realizes they can no longer wait. In one case, a doctor loses his life at work; in the other, a child who should have been within the safest circle of life becomes the victim of profound […]...

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From Mahmoud Ansari to Qaisar; Media Heroism and the Return of the Logic of Revenge / Morteza Hamounian

In Yasuj, the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, a doctor is murdered. The accused of the murder says that this doctor (Masoud Davoudi) is to blame for his brother’s death and that he committed medical negligence. So he takes action and kills the doctor. The accused of the murder is sentenced to self-retribution by […]...

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The Child Left Between Rape and Revenge/Fereshteh Goli

Lost in the chaos of Iranian news, a story with catastrophic depth was the story of an old man raping a boy in Tabriz, which led to personal revenge by the boy’s family, who sent the old man to the hospital and into surgery; revenge whose instrument was a wooden sofa leg. In this note, […]...

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From Execution Square to the Square of Distrust/ Majid Shia’Ali

After several decades of failure in economic development, democratization, and the strengthening of human rights observance, our society is now looking back at its previous experiences. Our society sees that despite experimenting with various revolutionary and reformist strategies, from parliamentary methods to violent confrontations, and experiencing multiple revolutions and social movements, it has still not […]...

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Public trust in Iranian society; in conversation with Noushin Sabeti, psychologist/ Mani Tehrani

  Conversation with Mani Tehrani “Our trust in others stems from our self-confidence” or “Trust in others is a sign of our culture”; these are familiar phrases. However, news and reports show that we actually know them as mere words, like the wind in a Persian proverb. Instead, to build more trust, we pay attention […]...

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