I was super confused by the authors use of neoliberal and I'm also confused by how you use the term. A liberal is someone who values individual freedoms and hu

I was super confused by the authors use of neoliberal and I'm also confused by how you use the term. A liberal is someone who values individual freedoms and human rights. A neoliberal is someone who values deregulated economy, privatization of all things, free markets, free trade, and open economic borders. The Iranian regime would be a conservative one, where they value limited social rights that favor some social morals over the individuals own, like what women/men can and can't do, what you can and can't eat, what you can and can't drink, what you can and can't teach or believe in, etc. The Iranian economic model is a mixed bag, kind of a social-caputalist mix, with lots of state owned and managed enterprise, but also allowing private ones. That said it comes with a lot of regulations to have them enforce the conservative social norms.