By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 January 2026
Khomeini Orchestrated the 1979 Hostage Crisis Because Iranian-American Relations Were Going Too Well
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A Note on the Concept of Sacral Monarchy in Iran
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 January 2026
The idea of sacral Monarchy stretches back to the foundations of the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great, over 2,500 years ago, who ruled as Shahanshah (King of Kings), an office originating with the Zoroastrian deity Ahura Mazda, and all Kingly successes were attributed to this god. It is this sense of Persian Kings as vessels for divine will that explains why they are so anonymous when compared to, say, the Roman Caesars: what mattered was the role, not the idiosyncrasies of the individual playing it.
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Ruth Morton and British Intelligence in the Falklands War
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 December 2025
An article appeared today about an interview given by Ruth Morton, an Uruguayan woman of British descent in her late 90s, who says she worked for British intelligence during the Falklands War. Morton, whose family had served the British war effort in the 1940s, says that she was involved in spying on the Argentine submarine base at Mar del Plata, on the coast of north-eastern Argentina, 250 miles south of Buenos Aires, adjacent to the border with Uruguay. A translation of the article is given below.
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