{"id":1239,"date":"2026-05-27T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:09:43","slug":"irans-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/irans-onion\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Onion Structure of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>why the Islamic Republic Survives Crisis?By Raghu Kondori, \u00a0in \u201cThe Jerusalem Strategic Tribune\u201d<!--more--><\/h2>\n<h3>Why the Islamic Republic Survives Crisis, Resists Reform, and Defies Conventional State Analysis.<\/h3>\n<p>For decades, analysts have repeatedly misunderstood the Islamic Republic of Iran\u00a0because they have tried to interpret it through models designed for conventional states. Some view Iran as a rigid centralized dictatorship in which all power flows vertically from a single supreme authority. Others assume that every major crisis \u2014 sanctions, protests, economic collapse, military confrontation, or leadership transition \u2014 should naturally produce rapid regime disintegration.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jstribune.com\/irans-onion-structure-of-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the\u00a0Jerusalem Strategic Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>why the Islamic Republic Survives Crisis?By Raghu Kondori, \u00a0in \u201cThe Jerusalem Strategic Tribune\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240,"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":[12,69,256,257,25],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-islamic","tag-jerusalem-strategic-tribune","tag-raghu-kondori"],"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\/05\/JST5-28.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","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=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}