During times of peace, the Islamic Republic of Iran is a colossal failure, a bankrupt theocracy whose top export is its nation’s best minds. During times of conflict and instability, however, it has a structural advantage. It has an extraordinarily high tolerance for the suffering of its own people, a threshold no rival government can easily match. For the Islamic Republic, suffering is a point of pride, not shame. Iran’s Gulf neighbors built their model on the opposite wager—that prosperity,

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