Posted on 06/22/2022 6:00:06 AM PDT by SJackson
Collapsing and rotting.... but not quickly enough!
Thank you, Jimmy Carter.
But the regime still has all the guns.
Shia Islam or Sunni Islam... a disease of humanity.
Those 5 in the photo above look like those in the obama administration.
Ever notice how angry looking the democrat politicians are?
Like they are psychotic like those 5 guys.
One reason biden wants to renew the JCPOA. He needs the boogeyman of Iran to use against Conservatives and Israel.
The “paramilitary Basiji” are the real foundation of the regime’s power.
Several million strong, they impose the regime’s will on the people. In exchange, they get preferences for university admission and government jobs. They do their regular jobs when they are not needed to bust heads.
Sort of like Affirmative Action.
Yeah, yeah. We have heard this for as long as we have heard “Durham is coming with indictments.”
Yet they never seem to fall.
The weekly “Iran is about to collapse” thread.
“Collapsing and rotting...”
Sounds like Biden’s America.
Have heard this repeatedly since 1979. The clerical regime ‘is collapsing’ over and over. The weak and ill Shah was convinced by stupid hangers on the clerical regime ‘was going to co;;apse’ and the ‘Shah would be welcomed back’. So Reza II stumbled around, delayed leaving Egypt and gave the revolutionaries a golden rationale to implement the well thought out program of repression. Repression without limit remains the government’s hold card and as long as their are determined and ruthless fanatics, or just power worshipers, at the top the regime will remain. Only a really big unsucessful war could provide the basis for a regime collapse and it would have to feature major internal schisms in the leadership. As long as their are a lot of RG personnel and an absolute determination to hold on to power no matter what the cost the clerical regime is going nowhere. The people who rule Iran really like to kill people who oppose them. They believe, really believe, they are G-d’s anointed and are absolutely incapable of error. This unbending attitude helped them gain power, they really enjoyed killing the Shah’s partisans when they got power, and they really like killing ‘traitors’ who oppose them today.
Apple TV has a great show out called Tehran. It’s about an Israeli spy in Iran. Excellent!
There's a generation gap of sorts -- Saddam Hussein started the Iran-Iraq War, which raged for eight years, and the pro-Khomeini fanatics disproportionately fed themselves into the guns before they could reproduce. Carter/Mondale refused to support the Shah, then arfed up the hostage rescue raid. President Trump had the IRGC head thug capped, and shouldn't have stopped there, but naming some names might be problematical.
Trump took out a big fish... mattered...
I was in Iran from 3-77 until 3 -79 working as an American Contractor. The uprisings to depose the Shah started around 8 - 78. The execution of high ranking military officers started in 2-79. That is probably the reason for the 8 year war with Iraq.
and...... in the Negev, Egypt, Jordan, all the GCC, Israel and the USA coalesced to contain Iran
Erdogan in bankruptcy and worse, is receiving the various coalition leaders who are making him offers he dare not refuse.
Turkish salvation comes with money and a promise to become a member of the Abrams Accord coalition against Iran or just die of starvation. The arabs are taking the lead and the Americans are following it
Students and academics, including top professors, are looking for opportunities abroad - and it is affecting Iran's home-based talent pool.
During the past four years, emigration has risen threefold.
According to an official report, about 150,000 people a year are leaving.
More than 100,000 of those emigrating annually have university degrees including PhDs.
Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar reports from the Iranian capital, Tehran.Poverty, unemployment and sanctions fuel Iran’s brain drain
March 2, 2022 | Al Jazeera English
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