{"id":1309,"date":"2026-06-24T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:04:41","slug":"the-end-of-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/the-end-of-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">The Battle Over the Future of Iran. By Raghu Kondori <\/span>and Behrouz Fathali, in The Times of Israel<!--more--><\/h2>\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r r-xoduu5\">\n<p>In the heart of the Lion and Sun national revolution, simultaneous with the suppression of the defenseless people of Iran by the Islamic Republic and against the backdrop of regional developments, a strategic reality has become increasingly apparent to the Iranian nation: the formation of an anti-national front that serves as a direct continuation of the political forces emerging from the 1979 revolution and anti-Iranian currents. This front operates not necessarily as a formal alliance, but as a functional convergence whose shared objective is to prevent the rise of a national, independent, and inclusive alternative for the future of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/the-pitch-as-a-battleground\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Times of Israel<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Battle Over the Future of Iran. By Raghu Kondori and Behrouz Fathali, in The Times of Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1310,"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":[279,12,174,25,271],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","tag-behrouz-fathali","tag-iran","tag-prince-reza-pahlavi","tag-raghu-kondori","tag-the-times-of-israel"],"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\/06\/The-end-of-the-masks.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}