The Illusion of War’s End and Security: Citizens Still on the Battlefield/ Elaheh Amani

The devastating twelve-day war, which temporarily ended after claiming the lives of 1,190 people and injuring more than 4,475 in Iran (1), once again brings to mind a quote often attributed to Plato: in societies where political power rests in the hands of authoritarian rulers, even after a military war ends, the living continue to […]...

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Protection of Medical and Educational Facilities in Armed Conflicts: A Renewed Test for the Credibility of Humanitarian Law/ Neda Ghanbari

Amid the recent twelve-day war, which unfolded along the lines of escalating security tensions between Iran and Israel, one of its most shocking dimensions was the attack on civilian infrastructure—particularly medical centers and emergency bases. Part of these assaults, unfortunately, directly targeted the fundamental right to access healthcare. According to reports published in July 2025 […]...

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A Look at International Humanitarian Law on the Occasion of the Twelve-Day War/ Alireza Goodarzi

War begins when law ends. The epitome of lawlessness is the killing of another human being, and that is the goal of war. If legal solutions worked, there would be no need for war. Yet for centuries we have tried to regulate even this unlawful phenomenon. Examples of wartime restrictions can be seen throughout history. […]...

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In Praise of Peace: A Journalist’s Account from a Bombarded Tehran/ Hossein Yazdi

War—this word has become entangled with our lives in the Middle East, as though the region has no other identity without it. At the time of my birth, the 1979 Revolution had just happened, and by the time I entered elementary school, I was fully experiencing war—red sirens and teachers who would take us under […]...

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Sustainable peace and the theory of economic and development balance / Ahmad Faal

The theory of economic equilibrium and development. Result We know that those who wrote the Declaration of Human Rights, and natural philosophers in the West, when defining rights for humans, recognized these rights as contradictory and conflicting with each other. Not only that, but they also saw the rights of each individual in conflict and […]...

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Peace – A poem by Zhakan Baran Malkshahi

This is a caption This is a caption Jakan Baran Malekshahi Constant coughs Dirty throat Bloody phlegm The weather of these days on earth… Earth; This greedy old man with a crooked nose Whose rivers are streams of blood His houses are prisons, his prisons are cells The cells are cold and damp dungeons His […]...

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Fake peace while ignoring human rights; a conversation with Siamak Ghaderi/ Simin Rouzgar.

  Conversation with Simin Rouzgar Siamak Ghaderi, a journalist who was released from prison less than a year ago after serving four years in prison and has recently won the International Press Freedom Award in 2014, has answered our questions in this issue of the monthly magazine “Peace Line” about the reasons for the necessity […]...

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