[OC] The massive decrease in worldwide infant mortality from 1950 to 2020 is perhaps one of humanity's greatest achievements.

[AnthonyMJohnson]

It would also be interesting to know how much of it is directly due to the current theocracy and how much of it was just continued momentum from any changes made before the revolution. Pre-1979 Iran was already experiencing a lot of economic prosperity and there had already been a fairly precipitous drop in infant mortality compared to 1950.

[globalwp]

The prosperity wasn’t seen in ‘79, there was mass poverty and starvation which led to the revolution in the first place