Saudi Arabia is an authoritarian dictatorship, is waging a brutal war against one of the world’s poorest countries (and not even winning) and is committing all sorts of crimes against architecture and urban planning with its brutalistic dystopia in the desert. They run air conditioners not just in their cardboard McMansions, but even outside, in the garden FFS.
Iran happens to find itself on the wrong side politically compared to the US. But in almost any category, from education to innovation to even democracy they run circles around those spoiled brats of heredity literally killing themselves on the highways out of sheer boredom.
Proponents of nuclear power should be quite scared to see this compass that reliably points south adopting their pet technology.