• mirshafie@europe.pub
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    4 hours ago

    You’re right on the aggregate, but Iran has been doing things like this for decades. Iran was moving in the right direction in the past 15 years but that development has been blocked and likely reversed now with the reformists losing all of their momentum and legitimacy, especially given this past year of war.

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      3 hours ago

      Or you know, when they had a fully democratic government before the US came in and installed the puppet Shah which led to the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and brought the fundamentalist government in power.