Great question – and a broader question than its framing in an otherwise excellent essay.
On paper, the Khamenei regime in Iran should represent everything that Western progressives reject. The mullahs impose a severe and conservative religious code on its subjects. Women in particular experience brutal oppression in both public and private, and are treated like chattel belonging to male family members. The economy centers on the nation’s military-industrial complex, with the IRGC controlling 40% or more of the nation’s economic output. Iran’s only real access to hard currency is oil, in a world where the Left obsesses over fossil-fuel use.
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