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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
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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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The host argues that Zionism also has a secular lineage in which the Jews become their own messiah through national self-salvation, with Herzl functioning as a secular nationalist rather than a purely religious actor.
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"presidential election, and as you can see, it's a pretty divided country, where people in the middle voted for Jalali, but people in the..."
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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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"Yeah, I know there's there's also a secular side of this as well that I think like people underwrite, which is that Sabbath, I..."
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"And so Herzl and yeah, was seeing the like national project is giving salvation to ourselves in some sense. He speaks an awful lot..."
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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