That’s one thing that is interesting to look at, how those with really strong religious beliefs and a willingness to politicize them usually share the most irrational and horrible attitudes when it comes to trying to push back progress. Theocracies aren’t much good at building a future, and are most often used to settle old scores and maintain a rigid status quo. a ‘extremist’ Iranisn is likely to agree with a ‘far right conservative’ in the US on many things: The teaching of religion in schools, ignoring science when it doesn’t support their religious POV, the desire to maintain control systems from previous times, a distrust of ‘outsiders’ and a willingness to die for their religious beliefs.