Not only a tool to justify U.S. and Israeli intervention, the label is increasingly dividing Iranian society from within.

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Alex Shams is a writer and anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, and elsewhere. A political and literary forum, ...

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