This week, an interview with Aryanum, a member of the Persian-language anarchist group Anarchism Perspective, based in Iran and Afghanistan. Anarchism Perspective is a synthesist anarchist group based mostly in the region that organizes solidarity and resistance as well as publishing writings at Anarshism.com . For this episode, we speak about the recent uprising in Iran that was met with bloody repression by the regime, with internet blackouts and low-ball estimates of 30,000 dead at government hands from January 8th and 9th 2026 alone. Aryanum speaks about the posturing by monarchists supporting the return and enthroning of Reza Pahlavi II, the son of the last Shah, and the weaponization of Islam by the Mullahs of the regime and other topics.
Anarchism Perspective links
- Website: https://anarshism.com
- email: [email protected]
- Anarchism Perspective Telegram: https://t.me/+RRUTo6xyoT468fgO & https://t.me/anarchism_perspective
- Insurrection Library: https://t.me/Insurrection_Library
Other Links
- Critique of Mass Mobilization by Anarchism Perspective: https://www.anarshism.com/critique-mass-mobilization-strategy/
- Aryanum’s past writing on religion as a type of power: https://www.anarshism.com/funeral-theocracy-religious-capital-en/
- Article on labor struggles in the run up to the uprising: https://classautonomy.info/workers-councils-reportedly-forming-in-iran/
- It Could Happen Here interview: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/whats-happening-in-iran-317260060/
- CNN report on mass deaths: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/10/middleeast/tehran-iran-protests-deaths-arrests-intl
- Basij volunteer milita of IRGC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basij
- Hrana (Kurdish human rights group): https://www.en-hrana.org/category/news/
- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/decolonize-anarchism-in-praise-of-burning-down-clerical-fascism-in-iran
- https://www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-protesters-dont-owe-us-an
- Thread on mastodon about the usefulness of Delta Chat via locally run servers when the internet (and therefore connection to Signal) was cut off: https://archive.ph/GBR6A
- 70% of Iraniun population suffers from malnutrition: https://ghalamrorefah.ir/id/1959/
Another Farsi Group, Anarchist Front:
- https://t.me/AnarchistFront1
- https://links.anarchist-front.org/
- https://link.kompektiva.org/@anarchistfront
- https://anarchistfront.noblogs.org
- https://t.me/anegofromworldgap
- https://t.me/AnarchistFront
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