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Arash Azizi

Arash Azizi

historian, actor, writer and translator (*1988)

  • Jul 19

    Iran's hardliners accuse Pezeshkian of 'soft coup' as Khamenei funeral exposes regime's internal war

    Hardline factions within Iran's regime openly accuse President Pezeshkian and his negotiators of a 'soft coup' after they signed a ceasefire with Washington, while the new supreme leader remains absent from public view.

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The day's hard news clustered around systems that usually stay in the background: shipping lanes, power grids, climate thresholds and model sandboxes. Governments talked about control, but markets, saboteurs, floods and autonomous code kept testing how much control they really have.

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