It is like a seesaw Khamenei s domestic weakness changes the balance of Iran s foreign policy.

Revolutions often seesaw between extremes before the forces strong enough to overthrow governments become strong enough and legitimate enough to govern.

The first thing that caught my eye was children playing on a make shift seesaw, made by putting a wooden plank between the fence.

Most are international relations experts who, viewing geopolitics through the lens of economic competitiveness, imagine the global order as a seesaw, in which one player s rise necessarily implies another s fall.