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“Any sense that history trends in a general direction is confounded by a large prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy”

Analyzed on 2026-09-28T16:41:45+00:00 · Last updated 2026-09-28

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Any sense that history trends in a general direction—toward freedom, perhaps, or toward rights, markets, secularism, or science—is confounded by a large, prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy.

Extracted from: The Iranian Revolution Almost Didn’t Happen , The New Yorker

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The New Yorker newyorker.com credibility 0.85 Supports

“Any sense that history trends in a general direction—toward freedom, perhaps, or toward rights, markets, secularism, or science—is confounded by a large, prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy.”

The Iranian Revolution Almost Didn’t Happen

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Claim ID CLM-571AC9CD
Slug any-sense-that-history-trends-in-a-general-direction-is-conf-571ac9cd
Origin newyorker.com
Captured 225 d ago
Velocity 0.0/hr
Bias 0.00
Politics History