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Majid Shakeri, the economist-advisor to parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and participant in the failed Islamabad negotiations, now tells foreign interlocutors that Iran’s ruling circles have abandoned hope for any workable agreement with Washington.
This shift is not a tactical feint but the recognition that the Islamic Republic’s foundational commitments remain incompatible with the demands of the managerial order that directs American foreign policy.
Western Christendom once secured its borders and peoples through treaties such as Westphalia that acknowledged the irreconcilable confessions of rival sovereigns rather than forcing false concord under supranational pretensions.
The same law of nations that governed those earlier settlements still requires peoples to preserve distinct authority under God rather than submit to the leveling logic of the Technocratic Automaton.
Shakeri’s blend of revolutionary zeal and academic calculation merely restates the ancient truth that two cities contend for mastery and cannot share a single throne.
When the earthly city offers terms that dissolve household, altar, and border, the faithful remnant must refuse them outright.
The Iranian acknowledgment therefore supplies a clear precedent: nations that remember their own genesis will not trade it for temporary relief from sanctions or the approval of distant bureaucracies.
American households must now demand that their government cease the pursuit of illusory accords and instead fortify the sovereignty that alone preserves ordered liberty under the ancient creeds.
