Iran has failed as a society in the face of the modern world. It embodies a fatal combination of modern demographics—that is, a rapidly aging population—with a failure to assimilate modern productivity. Without military victory (in other words, without nuclear weapons), the forces that rallied to the banner of the Islamic Revolution can look forward only to a relentless pulverization of the traditional society whence they came. Such is the stuff of military strategy inspired by religious mysticism. When there is no retreat, nothing to which to return, Destiny beckons from the enemy’s lines,
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