For some 46 years, until 2025, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, self-destructive, nihilistic and inevitably, one day, nuclear. But was it really ever all that formidable? The mullahs came into power after the removal of the Shah and subsequently the interim secular socialists. They did so by taking American hostages, murdering opponents, executing former supporters and transforming the most secular and modern of the M
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