Posted on 07/28/2026 12:27:15 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
Iran is a theology.
It is no longer a country.
Not in the way diplomats mean the word. Not in the bureaucratic sense that produces signatures, ministries, chains of command, and solemn communiques printed on heavy paper before disappearing into filing cabinets.
What remains of Iran is something stranger: a prayer house where the faithful still answer a call no one can command.
MAGA still behaves as though there’s a political switchboard secreted in Tehran, even after six destructive months of war. They imagine some paneled room where a weary official picks up the telephone, listens gravely, and relays instructions down an orderly ladder of command. That fantasy died before the ink on the latest memorandum of understanding had dried. The ceasefire was less a peace than an intermission between explosions.
American officials now concede what was obvious from the opening act: the agreement never had a pulse worth checking. Ironically, the reason was not military failure but military success. The strikes shattered the machinery that was supposed to make diplomacy possible. You cannot negotiate with an organization after you've demolished the office where the negotiations are supposed to be approved.
Political scientists spend careers asking Robert Dahl's famous question: "Who governs?" In today's Iran, the answer is comic in its emptiness.
Nobody knows.
Perhaps not even the people carrying the titles.
(Excerpt) Read more at turkiyetoday.com ...
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The TLDR summary is that The Paper of Record in Turkey (thus Ergoden) believes the USA so thoroughly has kicked Iran's ass that "the USA is negotiating with ghosts". Iran is about to fall over. Just give it a good shove and get it over with.
Shockingly, I agree with Ergoden's Paper of Record.
Josephus coined the phrase “Theocracy”. Maybe it started that way. Maybe not. It has evolved to a Mafia like Criminal Empire. The Ayatollahs have no standing any longer with the people in Iran. Only the 4,000,000 useful idiots that are still around.
a parasitic, deadly disease — Iran is the host
How to write a headline that will drive people away from reading your article.
MAGA still behaves as though there’s a political switchboard secreted in Tehran
That is pointedly bull shite.
I don’t know of anyone who thinks such a thing...just leftist panty wetting.
Ah, this guy’s target audience are anti-Americans in Turkey.
They probably like it.
It’s interesting, to me, is he rejects the MSM approach of “the USA lost to Iran” and goes with “the USA totally destroyed Iran’s leadership, such that there’s no one to sign a peace deal that has any authority”.
I trust Turkey’s analysis more than the MSM. They hate us, but see what we (and Israel) did.
It’s not leftist.
But you’re correct, it is anti-American, as stated in the first post.
I agree with Victor Davis Hansen - recognize the Gov’t of Iran in Exile, ie The Shah of Iran, and start developing that.
There a strong ring of truth to this piece - worth reading...
What’s particularly interesting is it’s coming from a source I’d generally classify as hostile to the USA.
More Popcorn Please...
You’re right. Stunning to think this was published in Turkey...
Left wing idiots at MSNOW hold Trump accountable for any change in any agreement with Iran. They fit the above comment - but not MAGA - we're more aware than democrat 'elites'...
This Operation has been a Long Time coming
Since 9-11.
If it comes down to a purely religious war (I say we’re there already) then targeting each and every mosque, religious school, Islamic center and all other places of worship with its own personal JDAM should provide days and weeks of hijinks.
What the **** is a flapdoodle?
flapdoodle /flăp′doo͞d″l/
noun
Foolish talk; nonsense.
Speakers and writers of nonsense
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