Understanding Iran requires moving beyond conventional analytical frameworks, which have too often led to strategic misreadings of the country’s complex system. In this in-depth analysis published in the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, Iranian-French author and filmmaker Raghu Kondori offers a powerful metaphor: that of an “onion state,” made up of successive layers of power, in which visible institutions represent only one part of a far deeper architecture.
Iran: The Onion State
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May 2026
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