Iran’s Teetering Theocracy
Last week, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, delivered his annual address to mark the Persian new year. As Khamenei said, Iran had a “difficult” and “tumultuous” year, which “began with flooding and ended with the coronavirus.” Khamenei’s speech should remind us that Iran was politically sick, suffering domestic crises, long before the coronavirus arrived, and that Iran’s theocratic regime made each crisis worse through brutality and incompetence. |