Reviewing the Persian language media, you sense that an unsettling atmosphere pervades the political landscape, as though destiny is inescapably closing in. There is also a palpable sense of fatalism, a resigned recognition that the path forward may not be altered and catastrophe awaits Iran. n this charged atmosphere, the regime's desperation to construct a semblance of national unity becomes palpable, so much so that it has begun conjuring the ghost of Shah Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi—a monarch whom it has long vilified as both a traitor to his people and a puppet of foreign interests. This ironic resurrection speaks to the regime's faltering grasp, as it calls upon the very figure it once condemned in its quest for survival.
