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Posted on 08/03/2026 11:39:45 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
Last week, I was invited to join a program hosted by an independent Iranian media platform called Azad, which specializes in facilitating debates between policy experts in Iran and further abroad. My debate was with Majid Shakeri, who gained prominence as a foreign policy advisor to Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (the current speaker of the country’s parliament) during Ghalibaf’s most recent presidential campaign. Shakeri was also part of the negotiating team that went to Islamabad earlier this year to hammer out the (now-moribund) MOU with the United States.
These days, when you listen to Shakeri’s interviews, you will hear him insist that he holds no official position. But he remains influential. His worldview, which brings together—not always convincingly—the principles of a son of the revolution with the pragmatism of an academic economist, is ascendant in Tehran. It is a reflection of Iran’s intellectual environment, which retains significant space for public discussion of political, economic, and social issues, that I would be invited on to talk with Shakeri. It was also characteristically Iranian that the discussion lasted three hours.
Our debate, at its core, was about how much pessimism is warranted on the war. Shakeri, like other Iranian analysts and officials I have spoken to in recent weeks, simply does not believe a deal with the Trump administration is possible. As a result, his prescriptions for Iranian policy are not focused on maximizing the potential for a diplomatic breakthrough. Instead, he is calling for proactive management of an ongoing U.S. threat.
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There is NEVER going to be “Peace” with Iran until their leadership is dead then there can be peace
But that was already attempted, remember? And it simply led to confusion over who is left to negotiate with and who is actually in control. I suspect in the future the assassination campaign against Iranian leaders at the outset of this war will be taught as an example of the risks and problems associated with targeting your adversaries’ leaders.
So does mean that we can finally take out the entirety of their twisted leadership (religious, political, AND military)?
“It is a reflection of Iran’s intellectual environment, which retains significant space for public discussion of political, economic, and social issues, that I would be invited on to talk with Shakeri.”
An open “intellectual environment” that allows the murder of 50,000 dissenting citizens.
Then the USA can have peace (and normal diplomatic relation) with Iran as before 1979.
Glass parking lot and move on. Enough of this nonsense.
7th century baby!
“ So does mean that we can finally take out the entirety of their twisted leadership (religious, political, AND military)?”
If that were possible, Israel would have done it already.
They are only buying time to get more weapons in from China and Russia EACH time. Take them out. Destroy everything. Bring them to their knees. Now. Good grief!
“As a result, his prescriptions for Iranian policy are not focused on maximizing the potential for a diplomatic breakthrough. Instead, he is calling for proactive management of an ongoing U.S. threat.” Bomb ‘em with ham sandwiches.
Iran will never dismantle their nuke capability.
Iran will never cede control of the Strait of Hormuz.
The IRGC will never surrender.
POTUS Trump...why can you not see what everyone else in the world can see plainly?
I hope I’m wrong.
But it seems like the only way for regime change in Iran will be through putting troops into the country.
Fine, stop shooting at ships and torture your citizens like the dogs that you are.
“But it seems like the only way for regime change in Iran will be through putting troops into the country.”
Afghanistan took 79 days.
Iraq took a mere 23 days.
For the US regime change is easy.
Just don’t get that confounded “nation building” bug.
There’s something else that will be taught as an example, and it’s fully has meaning.
The lesson is to low intelligence agencies and their lowlife co-conspirators:
When you install leaders in a country, it will come back to bite you.
And this bite is venomous.
What about the Insanian people that back them? It seems like that is not a small number.
Who needs peace when you know how to get extended cease fires time after time after time?
Its a small number, its like the ones here who believe that a man can cut off his junk and become a chick, what is that, 2 percent of the population yet they are the loudest same thing in Iran, the Iranian people who want peace cant just leave their homes and say “OK we take our country back” they have NO weapons they will be killed
Ezekiel 38 is coming
It’s just hard to say when
BUT IT IS for the Latter Years
and the Latter Days (KJV Bible)
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