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How to Save Iran 1-2-3

_{Nathan Lewis
January 16, 2026
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Economic Policy}

Iran has been experiencing quite a bit of disorder recently. The reasons for this are “complicated” — Iran has many foreign enemies, and the situation smells like an attempted “color revolution” — but the government of Iran has also been making quite a mess of things all by itself, recently and for a long time now. It’s no surprise that even the most patriotic Iranians might be very dissatisfied today.

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