Razgar Alani

ByRAZGAR ALANIJANUARY 14, 2026 11:43 Iran has now become a large prison: silent and dark. Internet shutdowns temporarily prevent the spread of information and news. At the same time, they are pushing the country’s economic infrastructure toward a historic collapse that will be impossible to repair. This decision is a double-edged sword.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, for decades a powerful symbol of ideological strength and aggressive regional ambition, now faces a perhaps accelerating path toward its collapse. In recent years, it has become clear that the regime is no longer capable of holding itself together. Its ideological degeneration has spread across the military, intelligence, administrative, and state-structuring apparatus.

Party meetings become tough and tedious when moderates resist predatory groups that exploit Labour as a recruiting ground but don’t share its values of social democratic change by parliamentary means. In the early 1980s there was a running confrontation in Brighton and elsewhere with the Militant Tendency, formally known as the Revolutionary Socialist League with a central committee, full-timers, and a printing press. I knew it well as a former teenage member.