Jiang says Iran is divided politically, religiously, and ethnically, but the decisive conflict is between secular nationalists and the Islamic theocracy.
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Secular Nationalism
Jiang says Iran is divided politically, religiously, and ethnically, but the decisive conflict is between secular nationalists and the Islamic theocracy.
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War also radicalizes secular nationalists into Persian exceptionalism, where Persian civilization becomes worth dying for beyond the survival of the Iranian state.
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"Where they think that this war is about having a twelfth iman, massacres, and so on. And the Shia, who is basically the messiah,..."
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