Posted on 12/20/2020 12:42:26 AM PST by hassan.mahmoud
One year after the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the number one man in promoting the Iranian regime's terrorist policies in the region, the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the father of Iranian nuclear activities, took place, virtually without retaliation. Then, in the Belgian court in Antwerp, Assadollah Assadi, the diplomat terrorist of the regime in Austria, went on trial for carrying a bomb to be installed at the annual gathering of the Iranian Resistance, despite regime attempts to have him returned to Iran and open threats if the trial went ahead.
The consequences of these three strategic blows have had a profound effect on Iran and the region, greatly reducing the authority of the savage and bloodthirsty fundamentalists, and eroding the regime's defense embankments, which it had spent years and huge amounts of assets to build.
Some of the effects of these blows are: 1. The people of the region, especially Iraq, in protest against 16 years of corruption, unemployment, bloodshed and the interventions of the Islamic Republic of Iran through armed proxy groups in Iraq, revolted in October 2019. This uprising is ongoing and expanding daily. This uprising has all but erased the sense of invincibility of the regime's proxy armed forces in the mind of the masses.
2. Now, on the anniversary of the Iraqi uprising, after 3 days of conferences at the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, where Ayatollah Sistani, the senior Iraqi Shiite cleric, lives, four Iraqi popular militia groups (joined with Hashd Al-Shaabi) have denounced the Islamic Republic of Iran.
These four militia groups are: Lavaye Al Nessar Marjaeyat, Lavaye Ali Al-Akbar, Ferqat Al-Abbas Al-Qataliyya, and Ferqat Imam Al-Qataliyya. They had previously requested to be separated from Hashd Al-Shaabi.
3. Following a wave of pressure from Iranian-backed political parties in Iraq, such as Al-Fatah (affiliated with Hashd Al-Shaabi) and Dolat Qanoon against Saudi Arabia and Iraq rapprochement, finally the tables have turned against Iran and after 29 years a Saudi high-level delegation, led by the Saudi Minister of Commerce and Investment, Majid al-Qasbi, traveled to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Monday 7 December to sign several memoranda of understanding and economic agreements.
4. In Yemen, no one can tolerate the Houthis, affiliated with the Iranian regime, and in Syria, every day, IRGC commanders are killed and the mullahs do not dare announce the news.
5. In Palestine, pro-regime forces can no longer freely employ Hamas, Jihad-Islamic and Hezbollah. Fatah and Hamas have formed a coalition in solidarity.
6. Today, Lebanon is facing the worst consequences of Iranian meddling and Hezbollah's domination. It is devastated economically and politically and is in complete international and Arab isolation. It has suffered a catastrophic fate. Most Lebanese people hate Hezbollah's domination and the Iranian regime that funds it.
As a result, while we will not rush to judge it as the “ineffectiveness of the Iranian regime” quite yet, certainly the course of developments in the Middle East has changed.
The balance of power and rules of engagement for the Iranian regime have shifted and there is no return!
I wouldn’t call them all that Monday. Weren’t there a couple times in the ‘90s and then again in the early 2000s they almost got overthrown?
Don’t worry Biden will rescue them with pallets of our money.
They were getting close when Bammie sent them $150 billion.
How many times have we heard this?
Obama, Hillary, Kerry foreign policies were about the worst US ever had.
Joe will probably return to them.
Papa Joe is appointing a LOT of obama folks back into various positions. Third term for obama.
People may cheer the supposed immanent collapse of the Mullah’s regime, but it’s unlikely to be replaced with anything the West would like better.
Back in the late seventies the Iranians were protesting the Shah daily at my university. When he fell and the Ayatollah took over, they reacted like they were in shock. I asked one why they were reacting so hysterically. He said, “We wanted the Shah gone, but we didn’t want this guy!” On further questioning he had some vague idea that everything would be “milk and honey” (his literal phrase) and they would have all the freedoms of Americans but in an Islamic context. His thoughts made no sense.
Every culture frames life in the context they know. The only context Iranians know is either a monarchy or a theocratic state. The monarch would be forced to suppress dissent, which is Iranian’s default condition. Thus he would be bad. A theocracy would suppress dissent because their view is literally the way it must be, as ordained by Allah. Any other thoughts or views are sacrilege. (Give me the monarch as he is likely to be the more reasonable.)
If Iran can just hang on, the new Marxist USA will be rushing assistance to them while starting a war in Syria to depose Assad and install ISIS backed militias to fight Russia IMO.
The ayatollahs will be back in business again once Biden is inaugurated.
I wouldn’t be surprised he even arranged an emergency airlift of $1.8 billion in cash, just like his old boss Obama did.
When Khamenei finally dies, the mafia IRGC will take over. They are practically running the country now.
I was thinking that we have heard all this sort of thing before. Several times.
I experienced the same thing. The Iranian students (I had one as a roommate for a semester) also thought themselves as Persian and superior to the “Arabs”.
No doubt due to the policies of president-elect Biden ...
Trump would need only 9-12 months more to finish off Iran.
Limited attacks on several dams would destroy them.
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