Conservative Iranian

Conservative Iranian

Lecture Archive

Lectures9
Clips107
English transcript18,026 words
Source languageFarsi

Farsi lectures on conservatism, spontaneous order, and Iranian identity, excerpted into clips and translated into English.

Each page carries the passages we selected, the English transcript of every one, and a note on where the argument rests on contested ground. The translations are ours. Which passages became clips is our editorial decision, not the shape of the lecture. Every page links back to the full original, and the best thing you can do is watch it there.

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Two ways in: The Danger of Republicanism for the argument at full length, Pahlavi: The Future Already Experienced for the distinction most of the others rest on.

Parsi Live

Abbas Suri & Benjamin Suri 4 lectures 31 clips @Parsi_Live

  1. Why Was Khomeini Seen in the Moon?

    چرا خمینی در ماه دیده می شد؟

    Burke's historical reason and Tocqueville on equality, brought to bear on the Iran of 1906 and 1979.

    7 clips 1,327 words 49:50

  2. Was Mosaddegh an Agent of Soviet Influence?

    مصدق، عامل نفوذ شوروی در ایران | گفتگو با عباس سوری

    The case for reading Mosaddegh through Soviet and Arab alignment, and where the record disagrees.

    4 clips 778 words 46:52

  3. Why the West Does Not Survive Without Iran

    چرا غرب بدون ایران نابود می شود؟ | گفتگو با عباس سوری

    Iran read as the one civilization that absorbed Islam, and the precedent Europe now faces.

    12 clips 1,430 words 54:08

  4. Religious Intellectualism

    روشنفکری دینی

    Protest theology, which places struggle before faith, and a generation's withdrawal of recognition.

    8 clips 1,068 words 54:43

Darwin Sabouri

5 lectures 76 clips @darwinsabouri

  1. Pahlavi: The Future Already Experienced

    پهلوی؛ آینده‌ی تجربه‌شده

    Constructed order against spontaneous order, and the case for a known path over an untested one.

    14 clips 3,280 words 59:08

  2. A Conservative Understanding of History and Man

    چپ‌فهمی‌های چپ!/ فهم محافظه‌کارانه از تاریخ و انسان

    History as narrative rather than neutral fact, and the limits of positivist reason.

    16 clips 2,267 words 1:42:01

  3. The Importance of Nationalism and Patriotic Legends

    اهمیت ملی‌گرایی و اسطوره‌های میهنی

    Whether human nature is fixed, and Ferdowsi as the renewer of the homeland's legends.

    15 clips 2,072 words 1:28:20

  4. Loneliness Is the Price of Freedom

    «تنهایی» بهای «آزادی»‌ست!

    Aron on the left as a moral verdict, and the weight freedom asks each person to carry.

    12 clips 1,942 words 37:26

  5. The Danger of Republicanism

    خطر جمهوری‌خواهی

    Burke's contract between the dead, the living, and the unborn, against an unnamed republic.

    19 clips 3,862 words 48:32

About this archive

These clips are excerpted from longer lectures in Farsi and translated into English by The Conservative Iranian. The transcripts are our translation and not the speakers' own words in English, and any error in them is ours. Every page credits its speaker and links to the complete lecture on their channel. If you find this useful, the best thing you can do is subscribe to them there.

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