I am not paid by Mehdi P. to support whatever he writes, however, again, I agree with the argument set forth by the author in the article:))
Metaphor One: The regime is now a wounded wild animal (a boar, which in Texas, is considered a pest) hiding in bushes. It is bleeding. No doubt about it.
Metaphor Two: The regime has been reduced to a cult, not a small one; rather a fairly large one (as cults go). We see it on the screen--black chador clad women with their ever-present small children and their bearded and uncouth looking husbands, fathers and brothers.
Are they Iranian? Yes, they are.
Are they a sub-set of Iran's population? Yes, they are.
What sets them apart from other Iranians:
1. Their minority position in the overall Iranian society (less than 10%)
1. Their monopoly of political violence (for now), thanks to their possession of small arms and machine guns
2. Their provincial AND religious backgrounds and socializations, respectively
3. Their crudeness yet cunningness (Iranians are one of the most intelligent people on the Planet)
4. Their belief that they have the truth and righteousness on their side
6. Their willingness to KILL (preferable) and to die (less preferable)
7. Their consciousness that they are on their own and this regime of theirs was their FIRST and LAST platform of governance
With continued Israeli destruction of the agents of suppression, the ranks of those that belong to item no. 6 will thin out, leaving the remainder to cede the arena.
Even if there occurs a ceasefire, the regime will metastasize into a Zombie one with a Zombie religion (I use the term Zombie religion, borrowing from the French philosopher, Emmanuel Todd and his three-stage of a religion's demise). The regime will be a bankrupt one, morally, in the eyes of the 90% of Iranians and the rest of the world (apart from Shiite populations in Lebanon, Pakistan and Sunnis in the rest of the world that are intrinsically anti-Semites and anti-Western, but not brave enough to proclaim it. This especially applies to those in Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia and Indonesia).
The regime, post ceasefire, will continue to blast its "victimhood", "bravery" and "fortitude" in the face of an onslaught by the world's first superpower and its nuclear-powered proxy in West Asia (the Middle East).
What to do with this "lot"? Destroy their outer core physically and separate their middle core by rendering them powerless. How? By toppling the regime?
When? When the ceasefire occurs and post-annihilation of the means and tools of suppression.
How? By inciting the 80%-90%ers to replace the 10% on the streets and proclaim the end of the republic of Islamic terror.
Examples in history? The closes one would be the demise of the Argentinian junta after the Malvinas/Falklands war in 1982. Not too close an example, but close enough.
For Israel ending the campaign without regime collapse won't be tantamount to defeat, for trump maybe. Israel plays the long game just what the Islamic Regime leaders thought about themselves. Not least because considering its size Israel cannot hope to defeat a country like Iran in a single campaign. Its strategy is rather death by a thousand cuts.
As for the massacre, i don't think the world has had enough chance to gasp at the scale due to scarcity of information which was coming out of Iran. I think the day will come when this atrocity will be revealed in all its horridness.
Israel is not playing the long game they're trying to fight two wars at once and losing both. There's no way this war ends with both Iran and Israel still standing imo
Correct. On the point. Add to it Artesh and Deep State. , who I call “Silent Pillars”. This is why I SPI index, where I measure degree of frictions inside of Iran.
I am not paid by Mehdi P. to support whatever he writes, however, again, I agree with the argument set forth by the author in the article:))
Metaphor One: The regime is now a wounded wild animal (a boar, which in Texas, is considered a pest) hiding in bushes. It is bleeding. No doubt about it.
Metaphor Two: The regime has been reduced to a cult, not a small one; rather a fairly large one (as cults go). We see it on the screen--black chador clad women with their ever-present small children and their bearded and uncouth looking husbands, fathers and brothers.
Are they Iranian? Yes, they are.
Are they a sub-set of Iran's population? Yes, they are.
What sets them apart from other Iranians:
1. Their minority position in the overall Iranian society (less than 10%)
1. Their monopoly of political violence (for now), thanks to their possession of small arms and machine guns
2. Their provincial AND religious backgrounds and socializations, respectively
3. Their crudeness yet cunningness (Iranians are one of the most intelligent people on the Planet)
4. Their belief that they have the truth and righteousness on their side
6. Their willingness to KILL (preferable) and to die (less preferable)
7. Their consciousness that they are on their own and this regime of theirs was their FIRST and LAST platform of governance
With continued Israeli destruction of the agents of suppression, the ranks of those that belong to item no. 6 will thin out, leaving the remainder to cede the arena.
Even if there occurs a ceasefire, the regime will metastasize into a Zombie one with a Zombie religion (I use the term Zombie religion, borrowing from the French philosopher, Emmanuel Todd and his three-stage of a religion's demise). The regime will be a bankrupt one, morally, in the eyes of the 90% of Iranians and the rest of the world (apart from Shiite populations in Lebanon, Pakistan and Sunnis in the rest of the world that are intrinsically anti-Semites and anti-Western, but not brave enough to proclaim it. This especially applies to those in Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia and Indonesia).
The regime, post ceasefire, will continue to blast its "victimhood", "bravery" and "fortitude" in the face of an onslaught by the world's first superpower and its nuclear-powered proxy in West Asia (the Middle East).
What to do with this "lot"? Destroy their outer core physically and separate their middle core by rendering them powerless. How? By toppling the regime?
When? When the ceasefire occurs and post-annihilation of the means and tools of suppression.
How? By inciting the 80%-90%ers to replace the 10% on the streets and proclaim the end of the republic of Islamic terror.
Examples in history? The closes one would be the demise of the Argentinian junta after the Malvinas/Falklands war in 1982. Not too close an example, but close enough.
For Israel ending the campaign without regime collapse won't be tantamount to defeat, for trump maybe. Israel plays the long game just what the Islamic Regime leaders thought about themselves. Not least because considering its size Israel cannot hope to defeat a country like Iran in a single campaign. Its strategy is rather death by a thousand cuts.
As for the massacre, i don't think the world has had enough chance to gasp at the scale due to scarcity of information which was coming out of Iran. I think the day will come when this atrocity will be revealed in all its horridness.
Israel is not playing the long game they're trying to fight two wars at once and losing both. There's no way this war ends with both Iran and Israel still standing imo
Correct. On the point. Add to it Artesh and Deep State. , who I call “Silent Pillars”. This is why I SPI index, where I measure degree of frictions inside of Iran.