When global capital undergoes its fourth industrial transfer, they have multiple options including China, India, Southeast Asia, and more.
There is a reason why China, as a communist country, has won the favor of global capital, not because of the underestimation of the United States.
At that time, China had already popularized nine-year compulsory education and had a literacy rate of 90+%. The average life expectancy is over 70 years old, and the people are generally healthy. They are qualified and have a large number of industrial workers. Having qualified infrastructure such as railways, ports, and electricity. Having a foundation in heavy industry and a relatively complete industrial chain.
This is the real reason why China can defeat countries such as India. These conditions are not given to us by God, but rather accumulated over decades of poverty.
Similarly, Iranians need to understand that enduring current hardships for the future is worth it.
India has been through hardships as well, haven't they? China's biggest winning card was cheap labor, something that seemed very useful to the greedy capitalists of the US.
Things have changed now. We are transitioning into the age of AI and dark factories, and China is leading that. Cheap labor is not as useful as it was back then, which is why India will never be able to benefit from their large population like China did in 1980s.
By the way, China didn't have most of the things you named in 1980s. China was behind countries like Japan. Your literacy rate was 76% in 1980. Your life expectancy was 65 in 1980. You greatly benefited from your period of prosperity after you opened your borders to the Western world. I don't know why you want to insist that it is not true.
I am not saying Chinese are inherently superior. I am just saying the political, societal and cultural esp work ethics are very different from those of Brazil, India and Russia. For one thing, you will never see such chaotic, undisciplined and unplanned state in China as compared to those countries, the opposites are required for massive modern industrialization.
The Russians used to be super disciplined. And Slavs are great warriors as well. They defeated both the Germans and the Japanese during World War II. So, what has changed now?
Funnily enough, even the rise of the Russian empire was due to their cultural trade and acceptance of the dominant culture of the time. The Russians weren't a dominant force in the world before they started to establish ties with the European powers of the time.
Even before that, Europe was a backward place in the 13th century. They didn't invent most of the things they did on their own, but it was the Jews that transferred science and technology from the Muslims to the Europeans.
No matter how intelligent you are, you need to start somewhere and you need sharing of knowledge to get to the edge of science and technology. It never happens in isolation.
Anyway, we're off-topic and we are digressing. Inflation in Iran is getting out of hand and inflation and poverty is a bad combination for a system trying to survive. Many countries have imploded internally because of that, particularly when the country is ruled by people who are not that popular with the younger generation.