[blackdog]

The only way to rule a Muslim country is by a monarchy in which bribery, graft, sedition, and conspiracy engaged sub groups, are met with swift policing. Clear boundaries of what is or isn't allowed must be on full display at all times.

The Jordan model. Egypt too until the monkey brotherhood infiltrated their system.

[blackdog]

And for goodness sake, no Bushy "Arab Spring" or any other Arab phrases joined with any season, unicorns, rainbows, or vacation spots.

Arab spring was a Bush concept with predictable Bush like results.

[Louis Foxwell]

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.

[allendale]

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.

[bert]

——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?

[Louis Foxwell]

A more pressing article, written by a Jew in Europe describes the Islamization of Europe based on the failure of the EU to recognize its religious heritage.

Islam and Christianity: The Roots of Europe’s Religious Identity by Richard L. Rubenstein (December 2011)

[granada]

No.
But dream on.

[FreeAtlanta]

Fall of the Mullah Regime? This surely makes Barack Insane Obama, very very mad. He is probably all stompy feet and we-weed up.

[lurk]

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.

[trebb]

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.

[BeauBo]

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.