Iranian birth rates started falling rapidly around 1985 which should be counted as a major achievement of the current regime. Still, it was thirty years too lat

Iranian birth rates started falling rapidly around 1985 which should be counted as a major achievement of the current regime. Still, it was thirty years too late for the post-WWII liberal rebirth of Persian culture to survive. Maybe a return to fundamentalism in Iran was necessary to motivate the people to kick out abusively nasty Western-sponsored dictators, though; that was an ugly period.