The world-wide material and human progress of the past few decades has largely left Iran behind, despite conditions that should encourage success.
If these hinges had not worked together as they did, Iran today might look like South Korea-a vibrant, pulsing economic engine at the forefront of globalization.
"A foreign policy geared to regional and global integration could have permitted Iran to benefit much more from its unique economic geography."
Iran would enjoy strategic cooperation with Israel and stable, nonconfrontational relations with Saudi Arabia and the Sunni Arab world.
Iran is economically, culturally and demographically suited to be at the crossroads of Central Asia: Only its relative backwardness and extreme religiosity prevent the secular, vodka-drinking leaders of former Soviet republics from being more attracted to it.
Iran is in the decadent phase of its revolution.
With a declining economy, a raging coronavirus epidemic, and an aged and ailing supreme leader, Iran in the coming years promises to be more interesting-and more dangerous-than at any time in recent memory.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-and-the-tragedy-of-iran-11583101054?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
If these hinges had not worked together as they did, Iran today might look like South Korea-a vibrant, pulsing economic engine at the forefront of globalization.
"A foreign policy geared to regional and global integration could have permitted Iran to benefit much more from its unique economic geography."
Iran would enjoy strategic cooperation with Israel and stable, nonconfrontational relations with Saudi Arabia and the Sunni Arab world.
Iran is economically, culturally and demographically suited to be at the crossroads of Central Asia: Only its relative backwardness and extreme religiosity prevent the secular, vodka-drinking leaders of former Soviet republics from being more attracted to it.
Iran is in the decadent phase of its revolution.
With a declining economy, a raging coronavirus epidemic, and an aged and ailing supreme leader, Iran in the coming years promises to be more interesting-and more dangerous-than at any time in recent memory.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-and-the-tragedy-of-iran-11583101054?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
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