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Jun 21, 2026, 3:57 AM

Digital Exile: Distance Does Not End the Threat

When people flee persecution, threats, or political repression, many assume that crossing a border marks the end of danger and the beginning of safety. The reality is often far more complicated. In the digital age, exile no longer guarantees distance...

Jun 13, 2026, 6:25 PM

The World’s Silence is Not Neutral — It is a Choice

There is a particular kind of suffocation that happens before you even open your mouth. Not the silence that follows a scream. Not the silence after a protest has been crushed. But the silence that greets you before you even...

Jun 7, 2026, 6:08 PM

A Poet Who Died Twice. Once in Prison, Once in Silence

Some deaths demand to be witnessed. Baktash Abtin was a poet, a filmmaker, and a member of the Iranian Writers' Association, an organization that the Islamic Republic has spent decades trying to destroy. He was arrested in 2020, along with...

Jun 4, 2026, 8:16 PM

My Country Didn’t Lose Me. It Pushed Me Away.

People often tell refugees and exiles that they chose to leave. I have always found that statement misleading. Choice suggests freedom. It suggests that all options were available and that one path was simply preferred over another. But for many of...

Jun 3, 2026, 3:18 PM

After the fall, will Iran be free or just different?

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The country I loved was the people, the language, the mountains... What will it take to bring it back and not risk suffering under a post-Islamic Republic regime?

Jun 2, 2026, 6:41 AM

Two Peoples, One Pain

Why I Believe in the Kurdish-Israeli Bond I am a Kurd. And I have spent years in exile, waiting for the world to remember that I exist. This is not a new feeling for my people. The Kurds have been here...

Jun 1, 2026, 6:10 PM

The Cost of Waiting: A Refugee’s Perspective from Turkey

For years, I have lived with a reality that is difficult to explain to people who have never experienced it: uncertainty. Like many refugees and asylum seekers, I did not leave my home because I wanted a different adventure. I...

Jun 1, 2026, 4:26 AM

When Borders Become Prisons

I write this from Turkey, where I have lived in a kind of suspended existence for years — neither home nor truly abroad. As an Iranian forced to flee, I have watched the slow erosion of hope become a...

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About Me

Vorya Hossein Panahi Tazehabad is an exiled Iranian writer and commentator. His writing focuses on human rights, freedom of expression, migration, and political developments in Iran and the broader Middle East. He is committed to highlighting overlooked stories and fostering meaningful discussion about democracy, dignity, and social change.