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Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, France

'Iran's Ayatollahs are Doomed'

 

"For fear of one day having to account for their actions, the regime of the small strikes out ever harder, in a spiral of violence specific to all desperate dictatorships … History will one day render its verdict on whether this was triggered by Barack Obama's outstretched hand. But to remain the masters, the theocrats need 'Great Satan' to be shouted at every gathering. … In any event, Europe and the United States have no option but that of virtuous condemnation. The implosion will come."

 

By Jean-Claude Kiefer

                                      

 

Translated By Philippe Guittard

 

June 21, 2009

 

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In Tehran, every hour that passes is like a terrible countdown clock ticking away toward a brutal repression or perhaps a bloodbath. All in the name of God, according to the ayatollahs, on behalf of the "Islamic order" advocated by religious leaders desperate to maintain their theocracy. In reality, it is a dictatorship that guarantees them privileges and impunity on a bed of corruption.

 

"Supreme Leader" Khamenei left no doubt of the regime's intentions. There is no question of he, his royal court or his cronies - including Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - engaging in a bit of power sharing. Particularly not with hierarchs from other power centers, those "reformer" supporters of the same Islamic Republic, perhaps followers of a more civilized governance but certainly not democrats.  

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There's no question of the hundreds of thousands of Bassidj militiamen [a kind of morality police] and other guardians of the revolution giving up an ounce of their status, acquired through their body-and-soul allegiance to the turbaned ones from whom they obtain employment and subsidies. Because the system is securely locked inside a strange mixture of Stalinism, corporate fascism ... and religious devotion. So, for fear of one day having to account for their actions, the regime of the small strikes out ever harder, in a spiral of violence specific to all desperate dictatorships.

 

Iranian Filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf describes what she says

occurred on election night in Iran. She claims that opposition

candidate Mousavi was told that he won. She then tells what

happened when the regime changed its mind. Al-Arabiya, Dubai,

June 17, 00:03:32: CLICK HERE OR CLICK PHOTO TO WATCH

 

Because the ayatollahs in Iran are doomed. The elites and well-educated young can no longer support living in terror, without a professional future, with a "moral order" from another age and with public executions and stoning. But the agonizing convulsions are terrible. Every day, the theocracy of the mullahs finds new ways of protecting itself from the "contamination" of Western forces. This rigidity is similar in its origins to the Maoist "Cultural Revolution," triggered in 1966 by a clan struggle within the Chinese Communist Party. After a decade of isolation and another period of "repair," China changed course and has converted to capitalism ... yet the privileges provided to their communist nomenklatura have been retained.

 

Fellow demonstrators struggle to stop the bleeding of a young girl

shot down by plainclothes members of Iran's Basij - vigilantes that

act as enforcers for the Iranian regime. The video shows the blood

gushing from her head and neck as life slipped away. This video is

not for children: CLICK HERE OR CLICK PHOTO TO WATCH

 

History will one day render its verdict on whether this was triggered by Barack Obama's outstretched hand. But to remain the masters, the theocrats need "Great Satan" to be shouted at every gathering. And in Israel, their more imminent enemy is consequently denied the sufferings of the Holocaust. Openness to the outside world is a mortal threat to the ayatollahs. Their survival strategy is to remain in an isolated crouch.

 

In any event, Europe and the United States have no option but that of virtuous condemnation. The implosion will come. 

   

SEE ALSO ON THIS:

Gazeta, Russia: Kremlin Balanced 'Between Two Chairs': Iran's and the West's
Yemen Times, Yemen: 'Zionists and Their Puppets' Assail Barack Obama
The Asia Times, Hong Kong: Beijing Cautions the U.S. Over Iran

Jerusalem Post, Israel: Iranian Protesters 'Cast Adrift' By Obama and E.U.
Debka File, Israel: White House is Divided on Iranian Protests

 

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