{"id":1179,"date":"2026-04-07T13:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:14:17","slug":"iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran After Political Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title title_44\">By Raghu Kondori, \u00a0in &#8220;The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune&#8221;.<\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title title_44\">From Theocratic Collapse to Secular Rebirth.<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The collapse of a regime is mechanical; the birth of a nation is spiritual and intellectual.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The collapse of Iran\u2019s Islamic Republic in early 2026 marks more than the fall of a regime. It represents the most consequential historical repudiation of political Islam as a governing system\u2014and a strategic turning point for the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jstribune.com\/iran-after-political-islam-from-theocratic-collapse-to-secular-rebirth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerusalem Strategic Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Raghu Kondori, \u00a0in &#8220;The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune&#8221;. From Theocratic Collapse to Secular Rebirth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,147,236,108,101],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","tag-iran","tag-irans-ethical-renaissance","tag-political-islam","tag-secular","tag-shah-homeland-freedom"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Iran-After-Political-Islam.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}