ژورنال سایت خبری سیاسی ژورنال
PDF-English Journal-10 July 2025-No20
Abdollah Ganji, editor-in-chief of Hamshahri newspaper and advisor to Tehran’s mayor, posted on X that following the “12-day war” between Israel and the Islamic Republic, “several pieces of paper with talismans bearing Jewish symbols” were found scattered in Tehran’s streets. He added: “Years ago, the Supreme Leader claimed that hostile nations and Western and Hebrew intelligence services use occult sciences and jinn creatures for espionage purposes.”
At first glance, this might seem unrelated to politics—perhaps a symptom of a known disorder: schizophrenia. Someone who turns to spirits and jinns to analyse political events may simply be in need of treatment. Medicine and psychology have ways to help such patients. With appropriate medication, such hallucinations can be diminished enough for the afflicted to live with some degree of normalcy.
But in this Islam-soaked Iran, where the realm of jinns appears to rule the minds of the country’s rulers—or at least, where they pretend to believe in such madness—these deranged individuals become editors, earn salaries, and their publications are subsidised by the state.
Of course, there is no truth in fleeing to the world of jinns. Behind this absurd state pantomime lies a painful reality clawing at the Islamic Republic from within and without—like a venomous serpent, poisoning the regime’s core. The truth is that the blows to the regime’s security apparatus, including the elimination of top IRGC commanders and key “nuclear scientists,” cannot be obscured by the regime’s pathetic theatre. No one buys it. Just as they cling to the delusion of Imam Mahdi—a mythical figure hidden in a well for 1,400 years—they now chase jinns to pretend that the regime’s failures are anything but self-inflicted. The people merely laugh at these butchers.
Editor: Patty Debonitas
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