What Are the Iranians Dreaming About?

"The other question concerns this little corner of the earth whose
land, both above and below the surface, has strategic importance at a
global level. For the people who inhabit this land, what is the point
of searching, even at the cost of their own lives, for this thing
whose possibility we have forgotten since the Renaissance and the
great crisis of Christianity, a political spirituality. I can already
hear the French laughing, but I know that they are wrong."
(Michel Foucault)

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