Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

Travelling Activists, Radical Hospitality and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c.1880–1914* This article considers the political lecture tour, and particularly the travelling socialist caravan tours organised by Clarion socialists at the end of the 19th century, to argue that, for socialist...

I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

‘If Trump’s intention was to remove Khamenei from the political landscape, he may instead have fixed him in it, recast in the eyes of his devotees as a figure of sacrifice rather than failure.’

@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on the US war on Iran, from the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

This is really excellent and informative, as ever. From the best @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

‘Iran’s aim now seems to be not to secure immediate victory but to raise the cost of the war to prohibitive levels. It sees the conflict as existential. If regime change is the declared objective, then compromise is not an option.’

@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social:

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

an important read

“The dry and wet burn together”

The most astute and poetically beautiful contemplation on the US/Israeli war on Iran and the consequences of this to the people and region.

All without making the usual hubris filled declarations about how it will EXACTLY play out.

What we expect is pain and blood

The best thing I've read on Iran of late. Nuanced, insightful and beautifully written.

"Wars of choice rarely confine themselves to their intended targets. They consume not only the combatants but the assumptions that animate them."

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

Best essay I have read on the war so far by @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

"The absence of justification is not incidental. It is a morbid symptom of an international system in crisis."

I just sped ran @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social series on Iran on the @thedigradio.bsky.social and so incredible to have his thoughts on the current moment www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

‘If Trump’s intention was to remove Khamenei from the political landscape, he may instead have fixed him in it, recast in the eyes of his devotees as a figure of sacrifice rather than failure.’

@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on the US war on Iran, new on the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

“a politics of gangster imperialism…”

Excellent piece, thank you
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

What began as an attempt to alter the regional balance may instead hasten the erosion of the order that presumed it could interfere with impunity.
Great overview of the current moment by @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

"War alters political psychology in ways that are rarely linear ... What in peacetime appears as irreconcilable fracture can, under bombardment, assume the form of brittle solidarity."

"The absence of justification is not incidental. It is a morbid symptom of an intl system in crisis. The certainties of the US’ hegemonic stewardship of the intl rules-based order have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide, but no alternative architecture has cohered in their place"

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

‘War alters political psychology in ways that are rarely linear. Those who loathe the clerical establishment may still recoil at the spectacle of foreign jets in Iranian skies.’

@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on the US war on Iran, from the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

One constant in this moment for Iran is that @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social is a must read. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

“What began as an attempt to alter the regional balance may instead hasten the erosion of the order that presumed it could interfere with impunity”

“The certainties of the United States’ hegemonic stewardship of the ‘international rules-based order’ have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide . . . there is a politics of gangster imperialism that has neither international nor domestic consent.”

"The premise of the war rests on a profound misreading of the Islamic Republic...Iran’s formative experience was the 8-year conflict with Iraq, when it was diplomatically isolated and militarily outgunned, yet survived through a combination of ideological mobilisation and asymmetrical adaptation."

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together ‘The dry and the wet burn together’ is a Persian expression invoked when a fire spreads without discrimination. Once...

My most recent piece on the @lrb.co.uk blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Strongly recommend reading this interview with @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social as a counter to so many brittle, binarised accounts circulating about Iran

Iran: the persistence of unrest and the threat of intervention As US Navy battle fleets converge off the coast of Iran, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi gave an in-depth interview to Naz Massoumi on the recent uprising, it’s roots and the prospects for Iran and its pe...

I am pleased to share my recent interview with Counterfire on developments in Iran, conducted on 9 February.
My thanks to Nariman Massoumi for the thoughtful questions.

www.counterfire.org/article/iran...

Reminder: We are delighted to welcome Professor Behrooz Ghamari for an online book talk tomorrow at 4:00pm GMT at the University of St Andrews. All are very welcome to attend.

events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/book-...

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi · Made in Tehran: Iran’s Crises Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the state...

‘The war led to the Revolutionary Guards becoming the country’s chief military institution, entrenched a siege mentality and habituated a generation of Iranian leaders to the logic of deterrence, endurance and asymmetric conflict.’

@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

AXIS OF EMPIRE: A HISTORY OF U.S. AND IRAN RELATIONS ft. AFSHIN MATIN-ASGARI YouTube video by THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast

I had the good fortune to join Afshin Matin-Asgari and Hamid Dabashi in conversation around Afshin’s new book Axis of Empire - a sharp, wide-ranging discussion on the long and entangled history of Iran–US relations.

www.youtube.com/live/wPnHd8E...

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi · Made in Tehran: Iran’s Crises Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the state...

‘While the political isolation of the Islamic Republic is in part a result of the regime’s miscalculations, internal repression and strategic blunders, the US has remained committed to a policy of containment and neutralisation.’

@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Iran Is Facing Its Deepest Crisis Since the 1979 Revolution Discontent over dire economic conditions lay behind the protest wave that rocked Iran earlier this month. A US attack will make things even worse for the Iranian people, whether or not it results in t...

My latest interview with @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the recent uprising in Iran and the wider political context. I’ve tried to offer a measured assessment of the dynamics at play and the limits of easy answers.

jacobin.com/2026/01/iran...

Iran Is Facing Its Deepest Crisis Since the 1979 Revolution Discontent over dire economic conditions lay behind the protest wave that rocked Iran earlier this month. A US attack will make things even worse for the Iranian people, whether or not it results in the regime change Donald Trump would like to see.

Discontent over dire economic conditions lay behind the protest wave that rocked Iran earlier this month.

A US attack will make things even worse for the Iranian people, whether or not it results in the regime change Donald Trump would like to see.

Iran Is Facing Its Deepest Crisis Since the 1979 Revolution Discontent over dire economic conditions lay behind the protest wave that rocked Iran earlier this month. A US attack will make things even worse for the Iranian people, whether or not it results in t...

My latest interview with @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the recent uprising in Iran and the wider political context. I’ve tried to offer a measured assessment of the dynamics at play and the limits of easy answers.

jacobin.com/2026/01/iran...