Iran Without Borders keyword-photojournalist not in the presence or

not in the presence or absence of ‘traditional socialism’

which the Peña Nieto government cynically dubbed the “historic truth”

As the financial crisis reached its climax in September 2008

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Zhongjin Li

Iran Without Borders keyword-photojournalist not in the presence orNo ruling regime, writes Hamid Dabashi, could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people. For decades, the narrative about Iran has been dominated by a false binary, in which the traditional ruling Islamist regime is counterposed to a modern population of educated, secular urbanites. However, Iran has for many centuries been a nation forged from a diverse mix of influences, most of them non sectarian and cosmopolitan. In Iran