Ethan argues that the clean energy transition can weaken the Iranian regime by reducing the oil revenues that help fund repression, terror proxies, and regional leverage.
“A transition away from oil will not democratize Iran overnight, erase the Islamic Republic’s ideology, or solve every conflict in the Middle East. But unlike the current war which has done everything but stabilize the region and liberate Iranians, a clean energy economy would peacefully cut off the Islamic Republic’s single greatest source of easy money and the leverage that comes with it.”
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