Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@nybooks 1/5 What de Bellaigue’s otherwise searching account misses is that the Islamic Republic’s durability is not only a puzzle of political sociology but of eschatology. Iranian Twelver Shiism is among the most geopolitically operative messianic frameworks in the contemporary world.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @iyad_elbaghdadi 1/5 Something deeper is underway. Not diplomatic or military resolution, or managed de-escalation, but a form of revelation. The Palestine-Iran crisis has reached a threshold where the veil over the death-bound logic underwriting an entire global order is beginning to tear.Quoted by@iyad_elbaghdadi 1/5 Something deeper is underway. Not diplomatic or military resolution, or managed de-escalation, but a form of revelation. The Palestine-Iran crisis has reached a threshold where the veil over the death-bound logic underwriting an entire global order is beginning to tear.