Archive — Vision Pouya

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Why "Vision Pouya"? Manifesto of a different narrative

This website is the independent home of the perspective you follow on Instagram — no middleman, no algorithm.

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When AI verifies AI: the fact-checker as a war casualty

Per Euronews, Grok and Gemini authenticated fabricated war videos as genuine. What is left of verification when the verifier joins the casualty list?

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Hormuz: the grammar of pressure

A strait that was blockaded, reopened one day after the signing, and re-entered the sentence today via missiles on a tanker. Hormuz doesn't speak; it punctuates.

Mural of children and flowers on a bombed building on Al Thawra Street, Gaza — photo: Hla.bashbash, Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

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The Reconstruction Ledger: Promised, Conditional, Delivered

Every war keeps two sets of books: destruction, which fills itself in, and reconstruction, which others are supposed to fill. We keep the second book open — so far, the “delivered” column is spotless.

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The terrorist-to-partner pipeline: geopolitics' standard career path

In international politics, "terrorist" is not a job — it's a rung. This file charts the promotion ladder, from blacklist to red carpet.

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The Visa Lottery: A Stamp Decides Who Attends the Wedding

Fourteen members of Iran's World Cup delegation were denied US visas; Iranian fans were barred from traveling. But the World Cup is only the shop window — behind every rejected stamp stands a wedding, a birth, an unfinished goodbye.

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The Displacement Ledger: The Number That Never Trends

Millions of people were torn from their homes by the 2026 war — and that number got no live counter, no chart, no hashtag. This file is about that absence itself.

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PRISONBREAK: when even your liberation is fabricated

Citizen Lab documented an Israeli-backed network pushing AI-generated propaganda at Iranian users. The lesson is blunt: the audience is always the target — especially when the message flatters you.

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The precision-sanction myth: a scalpel that always finds the kitchen table

We are told sanctions are "targeted" — financial missiles with GPS that only hit palaces. So why is there never a minister in the queue?

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The Versailles memorandum file: a peace that needed a palace

Trump signed at Versailles, Pezeshkian in Tehran. Each capital sold its own version — and the document's field test was run on a Qatari tanker.

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Cartography of the Yellow Line: The Map Redraws Itself

Israeli military activity in Gaza fell about 20 percent in June — and concentrated on consolidating the “Yellow Line.” The story of a line that is not a border in any agreement, and becomes more of one every day.

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The Calculator Desk: What Does a War Cost?

Every newsroom has a graphics desk. We have a pocket calculator and one rule: no number enters the table without a source. Where the source is missing, the cell stays empty.