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As we all know, Iran is regarded as the one mid-east nation that most threatens world peace.
But there are quite interesting events now as the two main elements of the far right Iranian have a major power struggle.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/interna...ed-tensions-with-iran-supreme-leader-1.358433
Because in any government anywhere in the world, there are two quite distinct entities, the current ruling government, and the people themselves.
But to go back to the period between 1953 and 1979, Eisenhower and the Brits engineered a coup that toppled the then Iranian democracy and replaced it with a pro-Western Shah. And between Saudi Arabia and Iran, those governments sold oil to the West cheap. What a deal what a deal for the everyone else, except for the Iranian people. The Shah was vicious bastard indeed. But catching everyone flatfooted including the CIA, in 1979 the Shah finally alienated everyone in Iran, and soon grabbed what portable wealth he could and soon fled Iran. At such moments of anarchy, anything can happen, but the best prepared was the Ayatollah Khomeni, as a long time Iranian exile then sheltering in France.
Iran. And soon after returning to Iran, established a nutty Iranian theocracy government similar to the Taliban. But as a fait acompli, there was little anyone could do, but watch in horror as a religious new Spanish inquisition type government swept Iran.
As for the Iranian people themselves, the only thing that resulted was to trade one non democratic brutal government for another set of oppressors.
Then we add in sneaky manipulators like Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney who soon got the bright idea to bring back the Shah. And soon they conceived a new bright idea to arm a fellow named Saddam Huessien in Iraq. So he could attack Iran, and end its government. And soon Iraq was attacking Iran to do the Western bidding. And when the smoke finally settled, all Cheney and Dumsfeld ended up doing is killing millions of people mainly in Iran, which only had a net effect of making the Mullah Iranian government even stronger as they were forced to learn they could only rely on weapons they manufactured in Iran. And then to add US injury to insult, we learned that Saddam was democratic and was dealing with Russia too. And in the neocon palybook, there is nothing worse than a tin pot dictator that won't stay bought. Well as we later saw, ole Noreagia and Saddam ended up being dealt with. As for Iran, they were decimated, but their Mullah government emerged even stronger.
Now its time to ask what about the Iranian people who emerged from the conflicts with a curious blend of democracy that could be over ruled by theocracy. The first thing to say is that Iran lost almost three generations of men used as Canon fodder, because that is all Iran had in terms of weapons in beating off Iraq. But the new males of Iran tend to be young, embrace Western technology, chaff under the domination of Mullah's, and they are the future of Iran. So how to address these more moderate people of Iran?
We know how not to do it, in the Dick Cheney way, as Iran sent in a delegation of moderates in 2002 trying to get back into Western graces. And Dick Cheney, the US VP at the time, kicked the moderates in the teeth and this assured the later election of an Iranian extremist in Achmadinejad. And also helped endure that Iran would start a nuclear program unsupervised by the US.
Flash forward to the re-election campaign of Achmadinejad against a more secularist figure in Mousivvi. As we know, the Mullahs in Iran to stay in power rigged the election. And the brutally tortured their own people when they protested. As in 30 years the Mullahs became the very rascal the Shah of Iran had been before. But the Mullahs were also torture democratic, they were as fast to torture the sons and daughters of nobodies as they were to do the same to the sons and daughters of the Iranian political elite.
And now when the Mullahs clash with their own boy in Achmadinejad, it just gives gives me renewed hope, the the Iranian people will give their Mullahs the old heave ho and at the same time discredit Iranian extremists.
At the same time a new pan Arab pro democracy movement is sweeping the entire Mid-east, and I think at this point, Assad in Syria can't last out much longer. And the world will be much better when Assad is forced to go.
Because that seems to be the emerging founding principle of the new Arab uprising, dictators that violently repress political decent from their own people, lose all ruling legitimacy and thus have to go.
So IMHO, I very much hope Assad and the Mullahs of Iran are the next to go.
But there are quite interesting events now as the two main elements of the far right Iranian have a major power struggle.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/interna...ed-tensions-with-iran-supreme-leader-1.358433
Because in any government anywhere in the world, there are two quite distinct entities, the current ruling government, and the people themselves.
But to go back to the period between 1953 and 1979, Eisenhower and the Brits engineered a coup that toppled the then Iranian democracy and replaced it with a pro-Western Shah. And between Saudi Arabia and Iran, those governments sold oil to the West cheap. What a deal what a deal for the everyone else, except for the Iranian people. The Shah was vicious bastard indeed. But catching everyone flatfooted including the CIA, in 1979 the Shah finally alienated everyone in Iran, and soon grabbed what portable wealth he could and soon fled Iran. At such moments of anarchy, anything can happen, but the best prepared was the Ayatollah Khomeni, as a long time Iranian exile then sheltering in France.
Iran. And soon after returning to Iran, established a nutty Iranian theocracy government similar to the Taliban. But as a fait acompli, there was little anyone could do, but watch in horror as a religious new Spanish inquisition type government swept Iran.
As for the Iranian people themselves, the only thing that resulted was to trade one non democratic brutal government for another set of oppressors.
Then we add in sneaky manipulators like Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney who soon got the bright idea to bring back the Shah. And soon they conceived a new bright idea to arm a fellow named Saddam Huessien in Iraq. So he could attack Iran, and end its government. And soon Iraq was attacking Iran to do the Western bidding. And when the smoke finally settled, all Cheney and Dumsfeld ended up doing is killing millions of people mainly in Iran, which only had a net effect of making the Mullah Iranian government even stronger as they were forced to learn they could only rely on weapons they manufactured in Iran. And then to add US injury to insult, we learned that Saddam was democratic and was dealing with Russia too. And in the neocon palybook, there is nothing worse than a tin pot dictator that won't stay bought. Well as we later saw, ole Noreagia and Saddam ended up being dealt with. As for Iran, they were decimated, but their Mullah government emerged even stronger.
Now its time to ask what about the Iranian people who emerged from the conflicts with a curious blend of democracy that could be over ruled by theocracy. The first thing to say is that Iran lost almost three generations of men used as Canon fodder, because that is all Iran had in terms of weapons in beating off Iraq. But the new males of Iran tend to be young, embrace Western technology, chaff under the domination of Mullah's, and they are the future of Iran. So how to address these more moderate people of Iran?
We know how not to do it, in the Dick Cheney way, as Iran sent in a delegation of moderates in 2002 trying to get back into Western graces. And Dick Cheney, the US VP at the time, kicked the moderates in the teeth and this assured the later election of an Iranian extremist in Achmadinejad. And also helped endure that Iran would start a nuclear program unsupervised by the US.
Flash forward to the re-election campaign of Achmadinejad against a more secularist figure in Mousivvi. As we know, the Mullahs in Iran to stay in power rigged the election. And the brutally tortured their own people when they protested. As in 30 years the Mullahs became the very rascal the Shah of Iran had been before. But the Mullahs were also torture democratic, they were as fast to torture the sons and daughters of nobodies as they were to do the same to the sons and daughters of the Iranian political elite.
And now when the Mullahs clash with their own boy in Achmadinejad, it just gives gives me renewed hope, the the Iranian people will give their Mullahs the old heave ho and at the same time discredit Iranian extremists.
At the same time a new pan Arab pro democracy movement is sweeping the entire Mid-east, and I think at this point, Assad in Syria can't last out much longer. And the world will be much better when Assad is forced to go.
Because that seems to be the emerging founding principle of the new Arab uprising, dictators that violently repress political decent from their own people, lose all ruling legitimacy and thus have to go.
So IMHO, I very much hope Assad and the Mullahs of Iran are the next to go.
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