In this episode of #AlMayadeen’s Demystifying #Iran, Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of #Tehran, examines how Western media and regional pro-Western actors framed Iran as an expansionist and sectarian force, even as a #US-backed Takf!r! caliphate burned across borders. According to Seyed Marandi, this raises a critical question: was the arrival of Iranian advisors in #Damascus in 2013 an act of foreign intervention, or a collective fight