Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
The principlist-dominated 12th Majles impeached Economy Minister Abdolnaser Hemmati on 2 Mar 2025 following rial depreciation from ~600,000/USD to ~930,000/USD over the preceding six months under sanctions pressure and war-risk premia. Hemmati (former CBI Governor 2018-2021) had been a central reformist-technocrat figure in Pezeshkian's cabinet. Mohammad Javad Zarif resigned as VP for Strategic Affairs within days, citing principlist pressure. Episode marked the narrowing of executive-branch reformist space and Majles-led constraint on FX and sanctions-reengagement policy.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.