{"id":1363,"date":"2026-07-09T12:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:01:47","slug":"the-architecture-of-a-secular-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/the-architecture-of-a-secular-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"The Architecture of a Secular Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">By Raghu Kondori | Shahvand Think Tank, in \u201cThe Jerusalem Strategic Tribune\u201d <!--more--><\/h2>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As discussions about Iran\u2019s future continue to grow, one question repeatedly emerges: what would secularism actually look like in a democratic post-Islamic Iran?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"html-span xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs\">Read More on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jstribune.com\/ai-as-the-next-world-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the\u00a0Jerusalem Strategic Tribune<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Raghu Kondori | Shahvand Think Tank, in \u201cThe Jerusalem Strategic Tribune\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1364,"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":[12,162,25,108,245],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","tag-iran","tag-post-islamic","tag-raghu-kondori","tag-secular","tag-the-jerusalem-strategic-tribune"],"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\/07\/IST7-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","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=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}