Iran
Shia theocratic republic
Iran leans hardest toward Order, Hawk and Protectionist.
The 12 axes, with receipts
Centralised state suppressing Kurdish and Baluch autonomy.
Elections exist but clerics vet every candidate; the Supreme Leader holds final power.
Morality police and mass executions; the 2022 protests were crushed.
Revolutionary hostility to the Western-led order.
Conscription and a network of armed allies across the region.
Persian and Shia identity imposed on minorities.
Huge state and religious foundations (bonyads) own much of the economy.
Subsidies and price controls.
A sanctioned "resistance economy".
A Shia theocracy.
Homosexuality punishable by death; compulsory hijab.
Pursues nuclear enrichment and space launches.
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