Nargis Bajoli

power meant and psychologically, a sort of inferiority complex.

You're now dealing with a generation that doesn't have that.

That's fundamentally different.

What has happened in Iran is now you have Gen Xers and elder millennials now running the show.

I mean, this is one of the reasons they were able to beat out the propaganda game.

Which were really funny.

And they're still putting them out, right?

And they're utilizing trap songs and rap lyrics.

I mean, if anyone spends enough time on the internet, this is not contrived.

This is a generation that grew up online.

There is a particular kind of shift that has happened that now Iran is being led by people who are of the 21st century, whereas a lot of these other countries are still being led by people who are fundamentally formed in the 20th century.

This generation is not interested in advancing the revolution anymore, right?

The revolution happened.

It's a fact.

And now they're interested in governing a state.

What this war has done is it's shown that there's a technocratic class in Iran that is of the younger generation that has now come to the forefront that was able to not only execute this war in a very efficient and efficient

I never like to call wars clean because they're not clean, but in a way that made sense to people and they could see what was happening.

And you hear from Iranians over and over again that besides the sounds of the bombs, we didn't feel like we were in war.

There was no shortages of anything.

And so now what this new generation is attempting to do is to say, we will bring that technocratic expertise to not just our military affairs, but to running the country itself.