Karam Nama: Tehran and Trump have Trapped us in a Forever War based on Fabulism

Karam Nama argues that Tehran and Trump have Trapped us in a Forever War based on Fabulism.

Nama writes that:

Trump does not conceal reality; he manufactures alternative realities and compels others to navigate them. This is not merely an ethical collapse; it is a transformation in the nature of authority itself. Power no longer requires coherence—only the ability to impose one’s narrative, however flimsy.

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And that:

For the Islamic Republic, denial is not a communication strategy; it is a survival mechanism. To admit negotiation would expose the regime’s foundational contradiction: a revolutionary rhetoric masking a deeply pragmatic, often desperate, diplomacy.

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With politics no longer concerned with finding common reality, the danger is that a manufactured falsehood has to be treated as reality which endangers the whole edifice. Reality has a dangerous habit of asserting itself.