• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    11D chess. He’s going to turn Iran into another stupid rich petrostate full of corrupt plutocrats.

    Iran is going to be another Hong Kong or Singapore by the end of the century.

    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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      1 hour ago

      Iran has been an autocracy since like 678 BC, although between 1925 and 1979 they had some social progress then immediately backpedalled. There’s no more corrupt than that. You’re probably thinking they might magically align more with the Blue Fascism than the Red Fascism of their Chinese sponsors if they had enough money, but I think that’s a foolish notion.