David Miller
The 'Islamic Republic' has not been an Islamic republic for several decades. Failure to: purge liberals; initiate revolutionary education; inoculate society against counter-revolutionary ideologies like neoliberalism, social liberalism, atheism and Islamophobia; and a culture of
Russians With Attitude
Aside from lacking nukes, Iran’s core problem is that it’s a revolutionary state turned counter-revolutionary — like the late USSR. That internal contradiction weakens it. Modern Russia, by contrast, is openly counter-revolutionary. It pays the price of having no fixed ideology