IRAN: Endgame?

Hot Air ^ | June 22, 2009 8:46 am | Ed Morrissey

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[rjp2005]

If the Revolutionary Guard makes good on its threat, the transition to military dictatorship will be complete.

Knew this would happen. Ahmadinejad made it clear during his first term he was all about two things - complete control internally and nuclear tech development.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I believe the Mullahs are now out of power...

[wolfcreek]

And in the red corner....weighing in at...

[Riodacat]

I believe the Mullahs are now out of power...

Dream on...

[razeislam_crushthedems]

It’s funny how all dictators seem to play from the same book. Mao Tse-Tung would be proud.

[colorado tanker]

Nutjob is a puppet of the mullets, IMHO. If the Guards take over, he'll either puppet for them or be pushed out.

[SolidWood]

Henchmen also die.

The mullah regime is on it's way out.

Keep in mind that the wordly rule of mullahs is non-traditional and even contradictionary to Shia Islam. The "velayat-e faqih" as the rule of a mullah is called, is a recent invention of Khomeini and likeminded mullahs who weren't even "top tiers". It combines a islamic ideology with a Soviet "republican" dictatorship.

There is much controversy among mullah scholars over whether the velayat-e faqih is valid or not. This 30 years cruel experiment will meet the end it deserves.

[SolidWood]

There is some speculation over whether it’s already nutjob (via his loyal Guards and militias) that is holding the strings over that old coot Khamenei. The roles may indeed have changed.

[ridesthemiles]

Nutjob is a puppet of the mullets, IMHO. If the Guards take over, he’ll either puppet for them or be pushed out.”

Nutjob was a long time member of the Guards, IIRC.

[Uncle Hal]

From what I have heard the only way to stop the military takeover is a nation wide strike. This evidently is what brought the Shah down.

[colorado tanker]

So, you think the Guards are already running the show?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

If the military became the defacto head after this, I would think in some ways that may be worse. I would guess they would be foursquare behind fielding a nuke. Of course the regime would be completely illegitimate in the eyes of the world and perhaps this would be enough for our allies to move on true sanctions against Iran.

[unkus]

I’m sure Israel is on high alert status.

[Miss Behave]

I agree with you, Ernest. I believe it’s been a long, slow time in its coming. I believe that the tipping point is now—that it’s the only future. The people have, in my opinion, displayed this to be.

[SolidWood]

I think so. Khamenei has cancer and is a senile old coot. Nutjob is the Chavez-like frontman of a gang of Guards Generals and nepotists who have Khamenei at their mercy IMHO.

It's turned from a mullah dictatorship protecting itself with the Guards to a Guards dictatorship hiding behind mullahs.

That's why news of dissent and division within the Guards is so interesting.

[DustyMoment]

It’s a shame that the Iranians, whom we love to disparage, have more passion about THEIR government than we do about ours!!

Where are the protests in the street against the usurper’s occupation of the WH??

[Joe Boucher]

Sleep well mullahs,
The people will kill you when you sleep, when you go to the bathroom, when you do anything.
Sleep well tonight and fear the people.