The ultimate loser, in this case, is true Iranian democracy - as in the foundation for the country's ability to resist Empire. Especially now, after the immensely dodgy 2009 presidential election and the repression of the Green movement - when even former supporters swear the Islamic Republic turned into neither a "republic" and certainly not "Islamic". "
Friday, February 24, 2012
Pepe Escobar: "What is Iran's Supreme Leader's game?"
"A recurrent theme among the lively Iranian global diaspora is that the Supreme Leader is the perfect US/Israel asset - as he incarnates Iran (although in many cases less than President Mahmud Ahmadinejad) as "the enemy"; in parallel, the military dictatorship of the mullahtariat in Tehran also needs "the enemy" - as in the Great Satan and the Zionists - to justify its monopoly of power.
The ultimate loser, in this case, is true Iranian democracy - as in the foundation for the country's ability to resist Empire. Especially now, after the immensely dodgy 2009 presidential election and the repression of the Green movement - when even former supporters swear the Islamic Republic turned into neither a "republic" and certainly not "Islamic". "
The ultimate loser, in this case, is true Iranian democracy - as in the foundation for the country's ability to resist Empire. Especially now, after the immensely dodgy 2009 presidential election and the repression of the Green movement - when even former supporters swear the Islamic Republic turned into neither a "republic" and certainly not "Islamic". "
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