Posted on 06/02/2018 5:22:54 AM PDT by GonzoII
The courage in facing Iran and countering its policies is no longer just measured by the decisions taken outside it. Some states decided to directly confront national security challenges posed by Iran’s policies in the region and elsewhere — namely Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, the United States, European Union and Great Britain. In Yemen, there are popular and tribal elites, parties and blocs that support the legitimate power and confront Iran and its project. In Iraq, Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr re-established the country’s political identity in a manner that opposes Iran’s project that aims to dominate over Mesopotamia. Lebanon might be the weakest link in the confrontation as it’s where Iran has its most deep-rooted wing via Hezbollah’s militias, yet Beirut is resisting even if in its own way.
All this is important but what is even more important is the domestic confrontation of the Iranian project or the direct consequences of this confrontation on the Iranians’ life, welfare and security. There is now growing internal discord between the rhetoric of the revolution and its dire outcomes.
Student outwits Supreme Leader!
Using very simple words, Iranian student Sahar Mehrabi delivered a detailed indictment of the revolutionary regime while addressing the supreme leader face-to-face in an unprecedented manner at a seminar held by the “leader’s office” during the month of Ramadan.
Mehrabi went beyond the classic flaws related to unemployment, economic decline and civil liberties in their broader sense. With intelligence and tact and under the headline of deepening democracy, she raised the issue of political tutelage of the supreme leader and his problematic position vis-à-vis the Iranian regime, in terms of the fact that institutions which fall under his jurisdiction are not held accountable — like the Revolutionary Guards, the judiciary and some media outlets that have mastered the game...
(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...
The Jordan model. Egypt too until the monkey brotherhood infiltrated their system.
Arab spring was a Bush concept with predictable Bush like results.
An interesting article written by an Islamist seeking to maintain Muslim control of Iran while replacing the current corruptocrats and tyrants. The article not only does not mention Islam it completely ignores the Zoroastrian roots of the Iranian people and their absolute hatred of everything Muslim. This is not different culturally from the conditions in Turkey Both are non Islamic nations with corrupt, fundamentalist Islamic governments. One might add London and Paris to the list.
Frankly the best US policy toward Iran is to ignore and isolate it. Eventually the Iranian people, who thanks to the internet and digital telecommunications, know how modern people live well and they themselves , despite the thugs and goons, will rid themselves of the medieval mullahs.
I would offer this observation...the banks in Iran are on the same failure path as Cyprus and Greece had been. At best...within two years, I think the IMF would have to step in and save them. At that point, the IMF could demand structural changes to the government and force the religious folks to step back.
I think a lot of the Europeans are missing that part of the ongoing crisis. Virtually everyone in Iran is moving their cash reserves out of the country, and into other currencies (same thing going on in Turkey as well).
——Something is unraveling within Iran and is no longer hidden — it is the belief in tomorrow and in the regime’s ability to continue——
The question becomes is there merely a loose end or have several rows actually come unknit?
Based on my experience, add the UAE to your model list. Agree with your post.
Other than Hillary of course.....
No.
But dream on.
Fall of the Mullah Regime? This surely makes Barack Insane Obama, very very mad. He is probably all stompy feet and we-weed up.
I believe the Iranian regime will fall and the mullahs will be cast out of power. Anybody paying attention can see this. The GCC and Israelis are now allies. Peace is coming to the Middle East and it will happen during Trump's watch.
I’m old enough to remember when only crazy people thought the Soviet Union would ever fall (wore an onion on my belt back then). And then a guy named Reagan came along and made the impossible possible. If only we had a guy like Reagan today.
Wait - what?
The distinction in Iran is that the people are Persians first and muslins second. And the mullahs have not played nice the last 40 years. The mullahs and Rev Guard have sucked a lot of cash away to expand their influence around the region and into Venezuela.
The more effective the dealing with the Norks, the more Iran loses - even Putin is extra interested because dealing with the Norks will have effects on his hegemony aspirations with Syria and Iran...thank Trump for the clarifying picture.
Big cracks in the Iranian Regime:
“It is not a minor matter that former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is accusing Khamenei of stealing more than $100 billion in public money and for the Revolutionary Guard leaders to accuse President Hassan Rouhani of being an agent or for Rouhani to respond by addressing the Guards’ mafia-like economic role.”
Perhaps with more pressure (on the way), it will erupt into gunfire.
When Reagan came into office and talked tough with the Soviet Union, walking out of an Iceland summit, calling them an "evil empire" and challenging Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, the left gasped and hyperventilated, accusing Reagan of warmongering and blundering us into World War 3.
I was so privileged to be a young adult during the Reagan years. I served in the Marine Corps almost to the day concurrent with Reagan's first term. I entered boot camp just days after his 1981 inauguration. When I got released from active duty in 1985, the economy was exploding and my salary increased 10x over the next 10 years. It was a great time to be alive.
With Trump, I am getting that same positive feeling all over again.
Using very simple words, Iranian student Sahar Mehrabi delivered a detailed indictment of the revolutionary regime while addressing the supreme leader face-to-face in an unprecedented manner at a seminar held by the “leader’s office” during the month of Ramadan. Mehrabi went beyond the classic flaws related to unemployment, economic decline and civil liberties in their broader sense. With intelligence and tact and under the headline of deepening democracy, she raised the issue of political tutelage of the supreme leader and his problematic position vis-à-vis the Iranian regime, in terms of the fact that institutions which fall under his jurisdiction are not held accountable — like the Revolutionary Guards, the judiciary and some media outlets that have mastered the game...
Thanks GonzoII.
There is also renewed interest in Zoroastrianism.
with the rise of the Izlamik state more Mohammadens are reading their scripture and realise how rotten it is and, for Iranis specifically, how it puts down their ancient nation
By not taking an openly confrontational approach to Iran, the USA has cut the legs under the regime -- the Ayatollahs have no "great satan" to blame for economic misfortunes.
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