Good strong point that Bitcoin has a strong use case in countries like Iran, Afghanistan, etc. That's the strongest argument I've heard for Bitcoin. I've asked the question around use cases so many times over the year, and you're the first one that came up with this use case. The only good one I've seen so far. Kudos to you.

Regarding privacy, my understanding of Bitcoin is that it is a pretty simply asymmetric key pair - Private key that you hold to digitally sign transactions and a public key that everybody knows and is in the ledger. I've occasionally read about some crypto currencies replacing the public key with another key for each transaction to hide your identity, but I'm not sure if Bitcoin has that capability, or any other crypto currency. I.e. it's important to understand the high level design concepts of each platform separately from the implementation details. (BTW: i'm a cybersecurity professional, I worked on Bitcoin briefly about 10 years ago, now I'm working on other cybersecurity issues).

Regarding your point "Isn't that what a fraudulent individual would say". No, I am saying that in a serious tone, because there are tons of people out there who are criminals and the possibility that this is what keeps Bitcoin going is not out of the realm of possibility, by any stretch, especially after the latest crypto fiascos. So what you're really talking about I assume is writing style (e.g. tongue in cheek to make a point - that's fairly obvious in this context) so please don't use that as a excuse to not consider the counter points and come up with a compelling answer. Which you helped by bringing up the Iran, Afghanistan etc use cases.