Archive - The Frame

Fighting and Flirting With Tehran Do Not Mix

Iran’s Post-War Power Structure Leaves Washington With No Easy Exit

May 8 • Mehdi Parpanchi

The Hormuz Nemesis: Why Tehran’s Ultimate Asset Became Its Greatest Threat

How Global Markets are Planning a Future Without Hormuz

May 6 • Bozorgmehr Sharafedin

April 2026

Behind Tehran’s Unity Show: The Secret Letter to the Shadow King

While Pezeshkian and Ghalibaf tweet loyalty, a clandestine power struggle over nuclear negotiations is exposing the regime’s deepest fractures.

Apr 24 • Mehdi Parpanchi

Trump Triggered a Political Storm in Iran Again

Conflicting messages on Hormuz and the negotiations left even pro-system voices demanding clarity.

Apr 17 • Mehdi Parpanchi

The War’s Central Mistake

How Trump empowered a defeated Islamic Republic by opening talks

Apr 13 • Mehdi Parpanchi

Tehran’s Favorite American: Why the Islamic Republic Prefers JD Vance, and Why That Changes Nothing

How Tehran reads the divisions inside Washington

Apr 11 • Mehdi Parpanchi

Nezam vs. Vatan: A State at War with Its Nation

A deterrence strategy built to save the system is now putting Iran itself at risk.

Apr 6 • Mehdi Parpanchi

Zarif’s Illusion of Strategy

A Sidelined Official Speaks for a System That Resists Understanding the Moment

Apr 4 • Mehdi Parpanchi

What Javad Zarif Said in Private as the War Began

The leaked text that shows another Zarif

Apr 3 • Mehdi Parpanchi

March 2026

The Last Feather: Why the Islamic Republic May Survive the War but Not the Peace

Beyond the Battlefield Metrics: A Fundamental Analysis of a Regime in Decline

Mar 31 • Mehdi Parpanchi

The Coercive Sequence: How Trump’s Iran War Actually Works

Why negotiation and war are part of the same strategy and what critics still fail to see

Mar 26 • Mehdi Parpanchi

Lipstick on the IRGC: Why Ghalibaf Must Not Be Rebranded as a Pragmatist

He is not a post-Khamenei solution. He is a distilled product of the Khamenei system.

Mar 24 • Mehdi Parpanchi

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