How a School In The Middle of War Became a Battleground Over The Truth

One of the laziest clichés about Iran is the idea that a single, unified “people” are standing against a single, unified “regime.” This formula works well for headlines, for rushed journalism, and for simple moral commentary. But when it comes to understanding real politics, it is almost useless. Iranian society is not a homogeneous block. It is a field of conflict between opposing political projects. War, repression, the dead end of reform, the collapse of political legitimacy, and the memory of bloody uprisings did not create these divisions or invent them. They simply brought them back to the surface. This…