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WHY IRAN STANDS FIRMThe American strategy is simple: eliminate leaders until someone agrees to everything. In autocracies, this works. Elites there rely on fear and money. If you remove the top, the rest start bargaining.But not in Iran.Because Iran is not an autocracy in the usual sense. It's an ideocracy. Power there belongs not to a single person or a family clan, but to an orderly structure bound by a common ideology.In such systems, a different selection principle applies. Not "who steals the most" or "whose family is stronger". But "who has proven personal loyalty to the cause".That's why the method of targeted eliminations, which works against autocracies, backfired here. Iran didn't collapse - it consolidated.In systems where elites are focused on accumulation, the fear of losing capital paralyzes them. There, the top starts negotiating, betraying, saving assets.Western strategists miscalculated. They measured Iran by their own standards: they thought the elites would be scared, falter, start bargaining. But they encountered the fact that power there doesn't rest on fear and money, but on the fact that the next ruling layer is ready to take the place of the one eliminated.
