Iran is a nation that has been under siege for decades by the most powerful and brutal regime on earth, the US. The measures and forms it takes cannot be understood without acknowledging that it is a state on a perpetual state of emergency.
End the war, pay reparations and lift the blockade, then you can criticize it’s internal politics.













indeed, which is why i prefer to recommend Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti.
Also Chomsky was an establishment scholar, his early rise was propped up by military funds and the such meanwhile Parenti stood up by his principles and was never allowed in academia.