Posted on 12/19/2025 2:58:27 AM PST by Libloather
The Iranian regime is in dire straits. Thanks to the decisive actions of President Trump and the State of Israel, the Islamic Republic is no longer the regional power it once was, and it now faces crises on every front. Iran’s military infrastructure has been seriously degraded, and its illicit nuclear program has been severely decimated. Its network of proxies throughout the Middle East is disintegrating: Hezbollah is seriously diminished; the Assad dynasty has collapsed; Iranian-backed militias in Iraq face mounting political and public backlash; and Hamas is a shadow of its former self.
The domestic situation is also bleak. Thanks to chronic economic mismanagement, corruption, and international isolation, the economy is in shambles and the country is running out of water. Lacking popular legitimacy and unable to deliver for its people, the regime’s only remaining instrument of control is rule by fear.
Despite these many weaknesses, there are still so many in the West who continue to labor under the misapprehension that there’s no alternative to the current government.
This is wrong on every level. It erases the aspirations of millions of Iranians who have risked their lives to demand change. It ignores the existence of a well-organized, democratic opposition that has spent more than four decades fighting the mullahs and preparing for the day after the theocracy falls. And it perpetuates the regime’s propaganda that the West must tolerate its brutality because the alternative is chaos.
The Iranian people have made their preference abundantly clear in repeated waves of uprisings. They do not want a theocracy or a monarchy – they want a republic that is free, democratic, and accountable to the citizenry.
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Yep, it’s going to take a revolution from the people to resolve Irans leadership problem.
Typically they are surreptitiously aided by the CIA and MI6 et al. I guess they aren't ready yet to form a new government.
How many Americans killed by neocon lies?
Pompeo should be in prison.
You don't actually still follow Fox News, do you?
So the last thing we should be doing is getting involved in Iran.
Well, it's good to know that you wouldn't have a problem with it.
As my grandma used to say, "That and a nickel will get you on the subway".
Why do you have the right to have or not have a problem with how other people govern their countries?
Well then, here's a tip for them: Take care of your own shit, and leave us out of it.
If the Iranian people want change, they have to provide it.
I’m speaking to the alien life form that has somehow invaded Jim Noble’s body and brain and ask it to please leave. Get out and leave him alone.
Ageee
Yes ...
... but I don’t think you’re following. Since at least 1946 we’ve been in the business of not minding our own s*** but helping pick winners or losers based on whether some good or terrible person or group would align with us vs. USSR; and various bad things followed. Iran didn’t become theocratic in 1978 out of thin air.
The problem is a) the interventionist guys in US never quit after 1990 and include the ‘neocons’ as well as islamist and globalist left factions here; and b) even if we wash our hands the aftereffects linger and other interested parties around the globe make no promises not to continue to bend things (for an easy one, I’m 100% sure the PRC prefers the present Iranian gadflies).
I agree for what it’s worth - but doing so requires the Trump strategy of self-sufficiency, reversing decades of planned inter-dependence.
So great we say “take care of your own” — the problem from over there is they’re never sure if we mean it or if they’ll be still helped or stopped by some unnamed alphabet group of “ours” that isn’t interested in what Jim Noble or No.6 or even Trump or Rubio have to say on the subject.
I just simply answered a question, forgive me, in that academic sense or matter, no more or less. I certainly do not think I have a right to have or not have a problem with how other people govern their countries and I am a bit surprised that you would take in that manner. And along with that, I studied in university the tragic fall of the late Shah’s government and in the years since followed somewhat his son and his efforts for his country, so I am trusting that I am not speaking on completely ignorant terms. Iran is a very interesting and scenic country by the way.
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