Armin Messager is a researcher and journalist focusing on political and social movements, sectarian dynamics and state power in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Iraq, Iran, the Kurdistan region and Syria.
Through satellite TV, viral content, and alliances with Netanyahu and Trump, Iran's monarchist elites are staging a comeback. From exile they are attempting to co-opt Iran's opposition by recasting the Pahlavi dynasty as a golden age of freedom.
