Religious Power as a Mask for Corruption - Iran as the Mirror of a Global System

The Iranian regime is a cartel of corrupt zealots — indistinguishable from their Arab and Turkish counterparts. They enrich themselves while preaching a morality they do not live by, and they enforce that same doctrine on a poor and exhausted population through coercion, punishment, and fear. The pattern is neither accidental nor unique to Iran: it is the classical structure of power dressed in religious legitimacy.