The jackboots are coming, of course. The ayatollahs won't give up without a fight. But it's been 30 years since the Shah was overthrown, and over 50 years in which the development of arguably the most 'Western' of Middle Eastern nations has been retarded by religious fundamentalism and the American meddling that precipitated it.
The dam's sprung a leak. And the flood is coming.
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