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> Also, the theocratic leadership of Iran is not so fragile

You're confusing leadership and economy. This is very significant difference - when economy suffer in first-world, whole world hear this from independent press, but when similar thing happen in countries like Iran, people are killed if try to open truth, because leadership pressures to open just info it think should be open and nothing more.

For example, when in North Korea happen great hunger, nobody outside country knows except CIA.



And it is also important to notice - leadership consists of humans and humans could make mistakes, and in Democracy, exists feedback via human rights and via independent press, but in totalitarian countries both things does not exist, and also does not exist feedback, so, when totalitarian leadership make huge mistake, nobody could tell them and whole country become like uncontrolled auto, running into abyss on full speed, and very frequently this end with total fiasco.




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