Iran has an an amazing grass roots oppression system where poor, fanatical Shia zealots are recruited, trained and embedded in neighborhoods to create a Stasi style decentralized control network
This has worked well to maintain IRGC grip on power but it is becoming a liability as our military works to destroy the mutual support network that allows these thinly spread, rather isolated Basij operative to concentrate forces to suppress internal dissent
Soon, the Iranian people will be free to deal with these despicable and despised scum bags in detail
The Islamic Republic has never treated domestic
control and foreign policy as separate spheres.
<><>Executions,
<><>censorship,
<><>the suppression of organised opposition.
The above are not merely internal practices. They are among the principal instruments through
which the Islamic regime preserves the political stability necessary to sustain its regional ambitions.