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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein of Jordan speaks during a news conference at the UN European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, May 1, 2017.


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Young Houthi insurgents sit on the side of a road as they secure a street near the United Nations offices. Reuters file photo


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Passengers arrive at O’Hare airport in Chicago, Illinois, US February 4, 2017. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski


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In this Sept. 9, 2016 file photo, a visitor uses binoculars to see the North Korean territory from the unification observatory in Paju, South Korea. (AP)


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Iran President Hassan Rouhani casts his vote during the presidential election | Reuters


Rouhani and the ‘As-If’ System

Rouhani and the ‘As-If’ System

In traditional clerical schools in Iran and Iraq, one of the skills that aspirant mullahs learn is known as “shabih-khani ”. This is difficult to translate but, broadly speaking, it means “narrating as-if”. In other words, this is a primitive form of theater imitating...