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Jiang argues the American strategy helps Iran by solving elite overproduction, increasing meritocratic mobility, and making leadership leaner and more strategic.
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Jiang argues the American strategy helps Iran by solving elite overproduction, increasing meritocratic mobility, and making leadership leaner and more strategic.
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Arming minorities against Iran activates Persian nationalism and long-lost historical memory, producing energy, openness, and cohesion rather than fragmentation.
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"What you do is this. You attack a place, right? You kill some people, and then people try to come and help the people..."
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"And guess what, guys? This American strategy is gonna create a more energetic, more open, and more cohesive Persian society, all right? Let me..."
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"The problem with this is that you are now activating, galvanizing, Persian nationalism. For the longest time, the Persian national identity was suppressed by..."
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