Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي
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In an interview with Al Jazeera English, I argued that the attack on Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), institution that serves as a centre for the country’s R&D of indigenous industrial development, is rooted in the fact that Iran wages its defense against US imperial aggression and Israeli colonial domination precisely through relaying on its homegrown industries. Indeed, they represent the sole material force capable of imposing tangible costs on the empire. I further note that, in contrast to US and Israeli forces, Iran has demonstrated a good-faith effort/issued advance notice prior to any potential operation, an act indicative of an absence of intent to target civilians. Additionally, any form of assistance to US military operations by any university, including contractual relationships with the Department of Defense or the Pentagon, logistical support, intelligence sharing, or any material aid facilitating US aggression, may, in Iran's view, render such entities or objects liable to lawful targeting, subject to the customary principles of proportionality and military necessity.
Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي100,792 views • 4 months ago
An endless sea of people in Tehran is making its way toward Enghelab Square, though we are still far from the square itself, while warplanes have been flying overhead all morning with bombs, as people move to pledge their allegiance to their new leader. Iranians remain as determined as ever to expel the United States from the Persian Gulf. It is a beautiful day in Iran.
Helyeh Doutaghi80,744 views • 5 months ago
The US no longer seek legal justification for its actions. This is what’s different from before in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond --the abandonment of even the performative adherence to international legality signals a crisis of hegemony. It is precisely within this rupture that Iran’s actions in the Strait of Hormuz must be situated. International law has never been external to power; it has been historically produced through encounters of imperial/powerful states. The so-called “War on Terror,” for instance, redefined the temporal and spatial limits of war not through consensus, but through the unilateral capacity of the United States to impose a borderless battlefield. What we are witnessing now is a partial inversion of that process. Iran’s enforcement of regulatory authority in the Strait is not merely a legal claim—it is a materially grounded practice, enabled by its capacity to project force in a geographically strategic chokepoint. Law here does not precede power; it is articulated through it. Iran’s position is effective not because it is legally unassailable in the abstract, but because it is backed by the means (force) to enforce a particular interpretation of maritime governance. Full article with Bikrum Gill incoming at Middle East Critique.
Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي41,126 views • 2 months ago
We just lived through a failed coup attempt orchestrated by the US-Zionist axis, backed by ISIS and the Western bloc, aided by local collaborators—defined by unprecedented violence and enabled by neoliberal restructuring imposed by a comprador oligarchic faction of the ruling class. Photos from 22 Dey/دی when we gathered in defense of Iran’s national sovereignty.
Helyeh Doutaghi51,010 views • 6 months ago
An occupying, colonizing force tells its victims that the path to freedom lies in betraying those who defend their sovereignty. Yet the students and educators of Iran’s University of Science and Technology, spoke to me of their determination to rebuild their university to advance their nations sovereignty: “I remember, after the assassination of certain nuclear scientists, many of our best people had registered to study nuclear science. The same happened in Aerospace field. The research center that was attacked stands as the culmination of twenty years of dedication by our researchers at the University of Science and Technology. I am confident that in less than two years, and even earlier than that, it will be rebuilt and surpass its previous level. for the knowledge forged here was created from nothing, and its legacy belongs to us.” Dr. Meisam Farajollahi, faculty member at the university targeted by US-Zionist attack. Sovereign Media VoxUmmah
Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي23,065 views • 4 months ago
Talked to Mohammadsadegh Shahbazi محمد صادق شهبازی who contextualized our united struggle tor liberation from Turtle Island to Palestine. “They thought the leaders of Iran were the issue. But they fail to understand that the Iranian revolution is a people’s revolution. In fact, when leaders were absent, the people themselves felt a responsibility to step forward—and the revolution was renewed. Everyone became a Khamenei”
Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي24,048 views • 5 months ago
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