Anti-Iran letter published in the Guardian receives backlash and withdrawals

Guardian Letter: The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective Responds

The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, Black Agenda Report. The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC) strongly condemns “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’,” the open letter published on 20 August 2026 in The Guardian and signed by Western academics and cultural workers in the imperialist core. The letter distorts history, obfuscates the current geopolitical conjuncture, and […]

The Guardian Letter: The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective Responds

By Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective – Aug 26, 2026 The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC) wrote this response to the open letter To Iran’s political prisoners, ‘trapped between two blades of a scissors’ which appeared in The Guardian. The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC) strongly condemns “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’,” the open letter published on 20 August 2026 in The Guardia…

Anti-Iran letter published in the Guardian receives backlash and withdrawals

A letter published by the Guardian, called “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’” published on August 20, is receiving backlash from progressive media outlets like BreakThrough News, Vpol, and withdrawals from signatories like American historian Robin Kelley and Nisrin Elamin, a Sudanese professor at the University of Toronto. Elamin said […] By The Canary

‘Ideological cover for war’: Anti-imperialist scholars condemn Guardian open letter over Iran

Press TV – August 28, 2026 The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC) has strongly condemned an open letter published by The Guardian, noting that its Western academics and signatories have distorted history and provided “ideological cover” for the intensification of the war against Iran. In a detailed response, the collective said the August 20 letter creates a “false and dangerous equivalence” between the defensive measures of the Islamic…