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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Category Archives: Iran
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.
How the Palestinians Enabled the Islamic Revolution in Iran
The Return of the King in Iran?
HAMAS Planned for the Massacre, Torture, and Hostage-Taking on October 7 More Than a Year in Advance
Israel’s War With its Enemies Has Only Ever Been About the October 7 Massacre
What the Gaza War Reveals About the United Nations and HAMAS
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 September 2025
In mid-November 2023, just six weeks after the Iran/HAMAS pogrom in Israel on 7 October 2023, Gianni Vernetti wrote a brief article for the Italian publication La Repubblica reflecting on the corruption of the entire United Nations system that had been revealed by the organisation’s reaction. A rough translation of the article is given below.
The United Nations Report Accusing Israel of “Genocide” is a Joke
A Note on HAMAS’s Systematic Rape of Israelis on 7 October
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 September 2025
The United Nations has been ostentatiously uncaring about Israeli rape victims, and this is to be expected since the anti-Israel disinformation network, of which the U.N. is such a crucial node, has engaged in a vast campaign of denialism about the sexual violence perpetrated on 7 October 2023 by HAMAS and the other units of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The same explanation applies to the silence of the women’s and “human rights” activist groups.
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