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Seamus Murphy: uncertainty

3 Sept 2025 Conversations with Tyler Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures

“Do they have much choice? I don’t know how much choice they have in the theocracy.”

— Seamus Murphy

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Seamus Murphy
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3 Sept 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…They’re not that separate ultimately. Iran is a difficult country to rule; it always has been. There’re so many different groups there, the Azerbaijanis. Maybe they’re afraid if they liberalize, it will collapse into some kind of chaos, or they don’t want to be the next Lebanon or the next Syria. I don’t know. Do they have much choice? I don’t know how much choice they have in the theocracy. It has a fair amount of support. It may not be majority support, but it has more support in Iran than it would find in most countries of the world.…

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