Iranian American economist Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani, who studied in Britain and America, mastered the economics of the Middle East and Iran. He used hard data to show how the Islamic Revolution and an anti-capitalist, totalitarian theocracy suffocated an otherwise booming economy.
His point? As in totalitarian China or North Korea, the culture of abundance and benevolence that the ruthless Iranian state and its “Supreme Leader” project to the outside world belies the human tragedy within.
