The smarties that came up with an entire war strategy of "fund foreign terrorists, and build up stand-off weapons as a deterrent to getting punished for funding the terrorists".
Which, to be fair, worked pretty well for them. Until last summer.
Russians With Attitude@RWApodcast
One advantage the Iranians have is that their entire elite seems to consist of 130 IQ polymath combat veterans with PhDs who stormed across minefields with fixed bayonets surrounded by poison gas back in the day and then spent 30 years studying philosophy, game theory, engineering and military science. Average decision-maker quality appears to be dramatically higher than elsewhere, especially qualified for shit-hits-the-fan situations
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