Marziyeh Amirizadeh is not the only anti-Iran columnist WorldNetDaily has made use of. Hamid Enayat has used his columns to regularly attack Iran since 2024:
- As Mideast war expands, Iran’s theocracy faces inevitable downfall
- Israel-Hamas: The monster’s heart beats in Tehran
- A solution for the never-ending crisis with Iran
- Can the Iran nuclear threat be neutralized?
- Iran’s ‘election’: More of a referendum on brutal ruling regime
- Iran in a state of terminal ‘super-crisis’
- The specter of Iran’s collapse grows ever closer
- Mike Pompeo predicts dramatic fall of brutal Iranian regime
- Iranian patriots, time to seize this historic moment
- Iran’s mullahs will never abandon their nuclear program
- Iran finally at the ‘tipping point’
- Another Iran nuclear deal? Learning from the errors that cost hundreds of thousands of lives
- The 3rd option: Toward a free and democratic future for Iran
Enayat has also promoted Donald Trump as well:
- Trump’s election is very troubling to top terror-sponsor Iran
- How Trump’s return will impact Iran’s nuclear program
Enayat does deviate from right-wing anti-Iran orthodoxy at times. In a February 2025 column, he rejects the idea of the son of the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, as a future leader, pointing out that he has “no history of resistance and no concrete vision for Iran’s future” and adding, “The collapse of the ‘Reza Pahlavi is my representative’ campaign, which sought to position Pahlavi as the undisputed leader of the opposition, demonstrated the widespread rejection of his leadership within the Iranian diaspora.”
Just one problem: Enayat may not be who he says he is. There is a Hamid Enayat who is a Iranian scholar who wrote a key text on the subject, “Modern Islamic Political Thought” — but he died in 1982. His son, Hadi Enayat, is a political sociologist who examines similar territory, but he looks nothing like the photo that accompanies Hamid’s column — indeed, that photo looks more like the Enayat who died more than 40 years ago, and it looks like it came from that era.
Google has been unhelpful as to explaining the difference between the scholar and the columnist. So we need to ask: Who is Hamid Enayat? Is the current columnist trying to steal the glory of the scholar who died? Inquiring minds want to know.