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The article presents a study about the international accommodation to state power in modern Iran, focusing on the cases of intellectuals who were perceived as ideological renegades. These intellectuals' turn from opposing to serving repressive regimes is described as a response to physical, ideological, and political pressure imposed by the shah's regime and the Islamic Republic.

The article features scholarly works about political prisoners in Iran. The works include Ervand Abrahamian's "Tortured Confession: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran" and Reza Afshari's "Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism." Afshin Matin-asgari's "Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah" deals with the topic for the 1960s-1970s, while Darius M. Rejali's "Torture and Modernity: Self, Society, and State in Modern Iran" is a postmodern analysis of torture.

Identifies some intellectual and academic assumptions that frame debates on modernity, culture, and Islam. Details of the Occidental rationality principle of scholar Max Weber; Idea of Oriental Despotism as the supposed form of Asiatic cultures and civilizations; Information on the theory of religion of author Mircea Eliade.

Discusses the characteristics of scholarly publications in the 1990s post-revolutionary Iran. Popularity of political journalism; Titles of the best-selling works of essayist Akbar Ganji; Books that explored the "backwardness," of the country and its double burden of political and religious despotism; Reliance of many publications on modernization and Westernization models to critique Iranian society and history.

Presents a criticism of the book "Gozar az moderniteh? Nicheh, Fuko, Liotar, Derida," by Shahrokh Haghighi. Impact of postmodernism on Iran's intellectual tradition; Philosophers who have influenced Haghighi; Definition of modernism.