Why did Iran become a theocracy?Mallory A. LarkinInformed Constituent
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Iran has large deposits of natural resources, access to the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south, a considerable population, a consumption economy, and is ruled by theocracy; for these reasons and more, Iran is defined as a center of domestic and international conflicts...
These are motivated by an ideology that denies the necessity of paying a price for freedom. In the end, through their chants of “principalists, reformer, the game is now over,” in December 2017, the rebellious youth put an end to the illusion of reform from within the ...
If "Countdown to Crisis" has a failing, it lies in its lack of policy prescriptions. Short of capitulation or war, Timmerman's solution for dealing with Iran's corrupt theocracy Àú empowering the country's vibrant democratic opposition Àú is just what the doctor ordered. But in the ...
WHY THE WAR PARTY NEEDED TO DEMONIZE IRAN Also circa 1990, the Shiite theocracy ensconced in Tehran was no threat to America’s safety and security— even if it was an unfortunate albatross on the Persian people. The very idea that Tehran is an expansionist power bent on exporting t...
The fractures are deepening. And as in the world outside, the refusal to hold complexity has become a crisis of its own. Each side speaks in absolutes. Each side insists that the other is destroying the country. The secular declare that the religious are dragging Israel toward theocracy. Th...
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But if women like Jenner depict potential outcomes of reproductive restrictions as anything but terrifying—whichThe Handmaid’s Talehas so clearly demonstrated they are—anti-choice politicians will lean into saying that a society where women have no reproductive autonomy is fine; appealing, even. Th...