Posted on 01/01/2018 11:24:32 PM PST by GonzoII
Every decade the Islamist regime has been in power, an uprising has cost it an element of its legitimacy.
A protester at the University of Tehran, Dec. 30. The slogans must have unsettled the mullahs: “Death to Khamenei!” “Death to Rouhani!” “We will die to get our Iran back!” Imperialism has not revived the regime’s legitimacy, as the protesting Persians pointedly reject expending their meager resources on Arab wars: “Death to Hezbollah!” “No to Gaza, not Lebanon! Our life only for Iran!”
However the events on the streets unfold, their most immediate casualty will be the presidency of Hassan Rouhani and its false claim of pragmatic governance. In the aftermath of the Green Revolution of 2009, which rocked the foundations of the Islamic Republic, a sinister argument gradually pervaded Western salons and chancelleries. The convulsions of that summer, the claim went, were over no more than electoral irregularity. With the election of the so-called moderate Mr. Rouhani in 2013, the system rebalanced itself. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his allies supposedly learned some hard lessons on the need to yield to popular mandates. Iranians want gradual change, we have been told, and believe that the system’s own constitutional provisions and plebiscites can be used to nudge it toward moderation.
Then, last week, Iranians took to the streets.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Its behind a paywall.
What are the main points?
Abandon Islam!
Make Persia Great Again!
My device to IraniansFreedom isn’t free but the price of slavery is to high to bear:
“Our life only for Iran!”
Sounds like Trump’s “America first”, which is just fine.
It’s a return to the preeminence of the nation-state and the demotion of globalism.
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...... that sucks, doesn't it?
WSJ
.............MPGA ...... cool
Try the Twitter link in post 3.
Jimmy Carter’s worst mistake was allowing/backing the terrorist takeover of Iran. Barack Obama likewise always backed the Iran regime.
Carter didn’t like Jews for some reason. Obama is a muslim.
To many folks; so is the Vatican's; while our FR Catholics say, "Sure; the pope is an EVIL!!! dude; but we've weathered worse."
The Vatican isn’t a theocracy its a secular city state.
Thanks for the link.
Remember when the good ole CIA used to overthrow evil regimes without one member of the our armies going in and dying by the thousands?! I long for a return...
He wasn’t a peanut farmer, he was a peanut broker... farmers have more common sense than that fool and aren’t scared of rabbits.
The worst mistake is when Europe sent back that turban POS with money to overthrow the Iran. Then the mess started. Screw France.
Bkmk
The money Obama forked over made a lot of the rulers very very rich. Now nobody wants the jobs since the money is gone and it means hard work. Really simple.
Our cia has been too busy lately, trying to overthrow America.
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