Iran managed to spin an illegal invasion and killing a school full of girls against the opponent. Lead by the most clownish head of state in living memory. An amazing, deftly feat. Fill out with some hundreds of words and a mandatory word count about Theocratic, Murderous, Regime, Dictatorship, Propaganda, and you have your standard IR piece.

Maybe they watched Team America.

Yes, human consensus is fundamentally driven by herd mentality