#ارتجاع

The Power of the Masses in the Era of the "Politics of Cruelty"; Media, Instrumentalized Reaction, and the Impossibilities of Resistance

In weeks that, in the author's words, "have condensed decades within themselves," Mohammad Hajinia, in a long article on the website *Critique of Political Economy*, tackles one of the most contentious questions in Iran today: Why is Pahlavi-centric royalism surging while the left is marginalized, and what is the media doing—or failing to do—in the middle of it all?