Sorry if it sounds like bad faith. I just have the impression he's much more liberal than the previous gov so it looks somewhat like shock therapy, but admittedly I'm not familiar enough with Iranian politics to structure an argument as to how he functions within the project of US imperialism.
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I really hope she's alright, was also missing her insight because she definitely understood the situation much better than most of us.
:the-vague-concept-of-revisionism: 
I agree that public negotiation with Iran is impossible but I think it's very much within the realm of possibility that someone like Pezeshkian is more pliable from the CIA's perspective.
When has that stopped compradors before? Fatah wasn't exactly a Washington darling but they were still subservient to imperialist interests.
I think you can actually just Lenin your way out of that one. Freedom, as the American Civic Religion describes it, is just political power. The people are free when the people have political power, because only power is real and everything else is an illusion. Then you can explain that the inevitable reality of class struggle is that the ruling class will use its political power to suppress the working class, i.e. take away its freedoms. This is true regardless of the size of the government. Therefore, for a transformative change to happen in society, the structure in which those classes relate to one another has to change, there has to be a new arrangement where workers seize political power to actually be liberated.
I think that weirdly enough this line of thinking can often lead people to fascism. Large, organized, multicultural, heterogenous societies are complex and hard to administrate, so wouldn't it be nice if we had a strongman in power who could deal with society's problems (which can easily be the undesirables)? The fear of bureaucracy leads people away from pro-social thought, preferring to deliberately atomize society. Maybe it's something deeper than bureaucracy.
Best lesbian representation either way.
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Putin is a Nazi memorial collector and he knows he can easily get the most impressive collection of statues of SS war criminals if he just takes all of Ukraine's land.
Don't misgender the OP then