English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-08 November 2025-No37 Dick Cheney, long-time Republican politician and former vice president to George W Bush from 2001-2009, died on 3rd of November. This is not an obituary – this is a lamentation. An expression of anguish that yet another ‘public servant’ in the endless succession of power-wielding malignant growths was able to survive his destructive legacy unscathed. Cheney was central to the attack on Iraq and creating the US government’s ‘enhanced interrogation …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-08 November 2025-No37 Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democrat politician, has become mayor-elect of New York, the most populous city in the United States and the country’s financial heart. During the campaign, Donald Trump threatened that if Zohran Mamdani won, he might cut New York’s federal funding. Mamdani is said to identify as Muslim, yet he is a staunch supporter of the rights of sexual and gender minorities. But the focus of Mamdani’s campaign …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-08 November 2025-No37 On the eve of the anniversary of the US embassy seizure in Tehran in 1979, Khamenei once again crawled out of his hole and declared that, in his view, “the dispute between the United States and the Islamic Republic is not a tactical or occasional one, but an essential dispute”. He set out three conditions, and said that if the US accepted them, “the Americans’ request for cooperation” could be …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-08 November 2025-No37 Falahatpisheh, a multiple-term MP in Iran, revealed that a certain outfit receives a budget of  over 1,000 billion Toman a year to convert Japanese people to Islam, and after six years had converted one person — who turned out not to be Japanese. He called it a racket. People harbour deep loathing for the government and its Islamic institutions, the herd of mullahs and ayatollahs, and the apparatuses of repression …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-08 November 2025-No37 The Islamic Republic has been forced to revoke the death sentence of Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labour activist and defender of women’s rights. This is a major success for the anti-execution movement in Iran. However, in an effort to avoid acknowledging this retreat as a victory for the anti-execution movement, the authorities have retained the original charge of “baghi” — armed rebellion against the state — and commuted Sharifeh Mohammadi’s death …