What’s the point of being the big boss if you can’t set your salary? You guys are so unreasonable. /s

I don’t think that the official story was that they would turn it over to the Taliban.

I think that it was that they would leave the local government to maintain their own security (knowing full well that they wouldn’t be able to).

Yeah. Previously it would have been seen as banning an extremist party. Now it would be seen as election tampering.

lots of Iranian scientists who were working with the IAEA were murdered by the Israelis

That is correlation, not causation.

They were nuclear scientists so obviously work with the international atomic energy agency.

They were nuclear scientists so were a target for anyone who wanted to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program.

That’s easy to fix… new rules where the king and queen swap roles. Although that would mean protecting a woman above the men so maybe not.