[bboop]

God is good. Great news.

[proxy_user]

Intimidation and fear are more effective than many would suppose.

If you are just an evil ruler, and want to keep in power, a police state is highly effective. Just make sure you have enough money to pay the police.....

[Tijeras_Slim]

"intimidation" and "fear" were the main things propping up the Islamic establishment.

Since 632 AD baby...

[Widget Jr]

This is the perfect time for the U.S. to stay out and let Iran collapse on its own.

[the_daug]

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. Niccolo Machiavelli
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/niccolo_machiavelli_157844

[righttackle44]

Look at Bible prophecy—no doubt it’s going to crash. The part of its army that invades Israel is going to die to a man. (Ezekial 38-39)

[VeniVidiVici]

Hashemi, 56, a former pro-reform lawmaker who was jailed for six months in 2012 after being convicted of antiregime propaganda, said one doesn't see the open and physical crackdowns on dissent like those seen in the antigovernment protests of 2009, but a lot of repressive measures are taking place behind the scenes.

Funny how they DON'T compare it to the years of the Shah.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

She’s right in many ways.What she is NOT saying is all that money that Obama sent is gone. Poof!! The mullahs enriched their bank accounts ( overseas) . They feasted and feasted, they are their full pushed themselves from the table unable to belch. The mullahs no longer interested in governing.

[Phil DiBasquette]

And yet, she still wears that shmattah on her head.