Posted on 10/16/2009 6:32:53 PM PDT by RightSideNews
The Islamic hard-liners are trying to convince the public that a plot in a form of a "velvet revolution" is threatening to bring down the Islamic government. The fundamentalists' regime has long feared a foreign-inspired upheaval. Ironically, they seem to have accomplished what their ubiquitous foreign "enemies" could not: They have planted the seeds for their own, homegrown velvet revolution. Whether it makes any sense, or is even believed by those putting it forward, Kourosh Zaim, (one of the leaders of the Iran's National Front who has just been released from prison) answers in an interview with Somayyeh Falsafi. (This interview took place before June 12, 2009 fraudulent election and the aftermath uprising)
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What does the Gospel say about 'sowing the rows'?
Would this include a “Velvet” exodus from their nuclear ambitions?
More want a bomb than want Dinner Jacket. (They see other Islamic countries on their enemies list.)
Well there is this...
Job 4:8
8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
NIV
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Excellent potlatch!
Thank you, his graphics will stay in style until the REAL bomb.
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But he is not really a threat Obama says -
The fundamentalists' regime has long feared a foreign-inspired upheaval. Ironically, they seem to have accomplished what their ubiquitous foreign "enemies" could not: They have planted the seeds for their own, homegrown velvet revolution.
I am not sure how you are defining "velvet revolution", but if you mean forcing free elections by popular pressure, or forcing a government out of office by mass demonstrations, I would say it would be doubtful to work in Iran. Ideological regimes cannot reform, because reform means conformation to dynamic international standards of government, human rights and against the static beliefs an ideology is based on..... An Islamic regime has more difficulty in conforming to pragmatic standards than a communist regime, because its edicts enter all aspects of human life and not just economics.
So, I think that in Iran a peacefully executed "forceful replacement" may be more effective than what is popularly and romantically referred to as "velvet revolution".
A velvet revolution can simply be achieved by ignoring the Council of Guardian filtration, and by using a standard election process under the independent observers' eyes. The degree of filtration, deception and cheating is so great and widespread, that conducting of a free election can be considered a revolution.
And this from the last paragraph sums it up:
If such revolution, velvet or silken, ever brews, the establishment will never be able to foresee it in time to be able to prevent it.
Now, we have to see where that "forceful replacement" will come from - although, I doubt it will be peacefully executed. It certainly won't be willingly or knowingly instigated by the IRI reformists. These reformists have made it very clear that their objective is to maintain the Islamic Revolution & Constitution.
Apart from their "Power" struggle against IRI Hardliners (e.g. Ahmadinejad), IRI reformists continue to advocate a milder, more open approach to peoples' protests, because they fear the eventual collapse of the ENTIRE Islamic regime should the hardliners persist with their heavy-handed actions.
The Reformists' approach is also quite wily, because if the ENTIRE Islamic regime were to suddenly collapse, the reformists can then claim that they were always on the side of the People & Democracy. After all, Mousavi, Karroubi, Khatami et al, have already been branded as leaders of the "Green Movement".
Thanks for posting!
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The League of Nothings and the United Nothings were/are a pathetic useless radical left joke
They have been for as long as I’ve been following politics.
The U.N. goes in and plunders and rapes, and the U.S. keeps subsidizing them.
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The UN had lots of PR years ago
Visitors to NYC would visit there
When the primitive 3rd Worlders grew in influence and power and oil - the UN became our enemy
If I recall, we either had to refurbish or build them a new building. Can’t recall now. I resent the money we give them. Better we just take our hospital carriers and go to the countries as we do and not pay the UN too.
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