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Beyond Geopolitics: Iran’s Cultural Memory in War
Military maps and cost-benefit models cannot fully explain how Iranian society understands and responds to war.
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Episode 4
About this episode
For decades, many Western analysts have interpreted Iran through maps, military capabilities and simplified cost-benefit calculations. These tools matter, but they often miss one of the strongest forces shaping Iranian society: cultural memory.
Collective memories of invasion, resistance, loss and survival influence how danger is understood and how solidarity is formed. This episode looks beyond geopolitics to explain why war activates historical narratives that remain deeply embedded in Iran’s political and social imagination.
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