fwiw the article itself while missing the forest for the trees is not as batshit as the headline implies
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by which I mean it is garden variety prog misunderstanding of culture and history, but generally unremarkable
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the argument it makes is that iran is draconian and horrifying now but pre-revolution was liberalizing, however eliding...
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...the fact govt of the 50s-70s was a US-backed dictatorship and the revolution was a repudiation of western interference
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