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center'Boogeyman mullahs': How decades of anti-Iran hysteria set us on the path to war
'Boogeyman mullahs': How decades of anti-Iran hysteria set us on the path to war Submitted by Nura Hossainzadeh on Tue, 03/03/2026 - 08:18 Western portrayals of the Islamic Republic as irrational and one-dimensional, devoid of political complexity, have helped ingrain prejudice and normalise a once-unthinkable war A man sits beside portraits of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a burial ceremony for a person killed in recent US-Israeli strikes, in Tehran on 9 March 20
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