Israeli intelligence operations inside Iran have alarmed Beijing, which saw them as a new model of intelligence warfare, prompting deeper technological, security, and strategic cooperation with Tehran.
I know for a fact that thought never occurred to anyone among the Iranian establishment
Despite all the ludicrous propaganda about anti-Americanism in Iran, the sad truth is Iranian society is remarkably western-philic, Iranians are culturally and intellectually captured by a bizarre exported form of early 90s western triumphalism. It reached its crescendo in 1997 when the reformers first came to power, but thirty years later it still hasn’t abated among the youth and those who came to adulthood during the 90s
I know for a fact that thought never occurred to anyone among the Iranian establishment
Despite all the ludicrous propaganda about anti-Americanism in Iran, the sad truth is Iranian society is remarkably western-philic, Iranians are culturally and intellectually captured by a bizarre exported form of early 90s western triumphalism. It reached its crescendo in 1997 when the reformers first came to power, but thirty years later it still hasn’t abated among the youth and those who came to adulthood during the 90s
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