Formerlyfarman

That spy thing is very cool.

As for the COVID response it was horrible but more people died in 21 after the vaccines were available. so it's a both sides issue.

Ship them to Iran, they can arrange something there.

commiting arcane accounting crimes is like failing a test, and these libs are essentially people who really liked going to school.

He does look like he'd have a soft underbelly

Yhea XP to vista broke a lot of stuff. I even switched to Linux for a while but had to go back because of what you said of other people using windows programs.

But you are right it would suck if the gradual updates also broke stuff. I'm against big changes in my os in general.

Yhea windows sucks, fucking company.

But the executive is not involved in yemen, the sepah is, Wich has is own budget and leadership, they are independent, and will keep doing what they do.

Short term a lot. Because they cause instability. And the other guy had great economic policies. Long term not much because liberalism is self defeating. Their policies tend to result in the opposite of what they want, last time their reforms caused a deficit, being liberals they sold state companies and functions. Those were bought mainly by charitable and voluntary institutions, Wich are generally principalists.

This is exaggerated. Very few people actually obey those prohibitions. The main issue is the economy. And easing sanctions is a real concern.

Both of them are

No, Khamenei is more like the pope in the hre. They mostly ignore him, also he is a liberal too. He was elected because he was liberal but had deep connections to the shrines, and in that time the contradictions between both were not as obvious. Or rather there are 2 types of liberals the freedom and the modernity ones, Khamenei is the former. Last election they banned a failson of one of his family friends from running, and he threw a tantrum bun no one cared.

He will, but it's not important in the long run.

Because Iran is in a siege. People recognize that they need foreign trade to improve their material conditions. And there is a substantial set of elites that want to have the same stuff as western elites. This is also why the Soviet union fell.

The difference is that Soviet elites were old and had lived through a long period of peace and prosperity. But in Iran there is another set of elites that is constantly being martyred. And I don't think they would give up so easily. There is also a lot of strong economic interests that hate the idea of a modern state. Finally liberalism is at war with itself; they want a strong government that supports capitalist interests, but their dogma forces them towards silly policies like fiscal responsibility that inevitably weaken said government. For example during the Rouhani government they cut funding to the space program, but volunteer organizations picked up the slack and the Iranian space program is doing great, it's just now independent of the executive. Likewise previous rounds of privatization have benefited charitable organizations and local militias. So I'm not too worried about this loss.

Some things are not going to be good, transition of some programs from the executive to civil society will cause delays, some things like the nuclear program are going to go to a standstill. And the economy will experience instability.