Open Dialogue Research Journal
Part I Iran has its own eschatology. In the tradition of Shiite Islam, it is said that the twelfth righteous Imam Mahdi, who remains in a hidden state, will return to this world on the eve of Judgment Day. Together with Christ (the prophet Isa in the Muslim teachings), he […]
Of all prognosticators who are presented on the Web, commenting and analyzing international relations, the retired British MI6 and diplomat, Alastair Crooke, is one of the few in whose predictions and analyses I’ve not recorded even a single instance of his having turned out to have been wrong. During a […]
The aggression of the United States and Israel against Iran has opened the veil of the metaphysical dimension of the conflict – the contours of religious beliefs, more precisely, the clash of metaphysical doctrines and ideas, have clearly emerged in it. And although each side points out that it is […]
In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. The Israeli version of a ceasefire might be defined as a moment of war deceptively halted to enable conflict to continue. War as cosplay and camouflage. Under such fragile conditions, military objectives […]
The US-Israeli attack on Iran starting on February 28, 2026, was the culmination of Israel’s attempt to assert itself as the controlling factor in the Middle East and ultimately the world. This was the result of more than a century of a Zionist anti-Christian revolution as documented by British journalist […]
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DWweKAACRnR/ 6 April 2026: Russia evacuates Iran’s Bushehr nuke plant. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTY8apYDw1i/ Tucker Carlson condemns Zionism. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DW0CIGxjbkw/ Tucker calls Trump “evil.” https://www.instagram.com/reels/DWzwnnjjPr2/ Impeachment of Hegseth is now placed before Congress. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DW1PT80jkkV/ Marjorie Taylor-Greene urges Vance to seek to invoke 25th Amendment to oust President Trump. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVgohC6DBHc/ Cats cower in fear from U.S. bombing in the distance. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DWqc-ewCH7O/ Comedic […]
Could it be another deadline? For what, though? The preamble to this is that President Trump with his war on Iran has a popularity rating of about 30% in the US. Trump sees himself between a rock and a hard place, so to speak. Because there are also mid-term elections […]
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 at 22:20, Gordon Duff <gpduf@aol.com> wrote: To those who have walked the spiral with me, to those now entering it for the first time: I write this not from a comfortable distance, but from the scarred ground of a life spent in the shadow of […]
The idea of nuclear non-proliferation has come in for some heavy punishment of late. For one thing, powers with nuclear weapons, pre-eminently the United States, have been shown up as blackguards in seeking to prevent other powers in acquiring the option. In its conduct of talks with Tehran, ostensibly to […]
The conflict involving Iran, Israel, and the United States has entered a dangerous new phase – one that increasingly resembles a regional war rather than a contained confrontation. What began as a direct military escalation between major actors is now drawing in proxy forces, destabilizing critical trade routes, and raising […]
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