To understand how the current military-religious establishment arrived at this point, one has to trace a dramatic historical tragedy: an organization and ideology that transformed into the very thing it originally set out to destroy.
When the revolutionary generation and early Shi'a religious thinkers laid the groundwork for their movement in the mid-20th century, their goals were deeply moral, anti-authoritarian, and aimed at restoring justice ('adl) and human dignity. They did not set out to build a totalitarian police state, an economic oligarchy, or a perpetual military-industrial complex.
Instead, they were slowly reshaped by war, paranoia, power, and institutional momentum—eventually morphing into a system that early Iranian revolutionaries and historical religious figures would not recognize.
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