“Iran’s current economic and political crisis is often narrated as the cumulative outcome of international sanctions or authoritarian governance alone. Such accounts, however, obscure the deeper political-economic transformations that have unfolded since the early 1990s.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51
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