Revolution in Iran

LGF and Regime Change Iran are citing Peter of Anti Mullah's breaking reports of revolt in Iran. Will it catch fire or be brutally crushed?

The Minister of Information and Security (MOIS) has promised to deliver the severed head of Ayatollah Boroujerdi to the Supreme Leader after the renegade Ayatollah called for Iran’s government to be separated from the Clerics and become purely secular, according to reports by Iranian satellite broadcasts.

An excerpt:
His followers resisted the efforts of the Security Agents sent during the afternoon to capture the Ayatollah and the on-going confrontation has resulted with multiple arrests, estimated by the Ayatollah himself in a live phone interview as being several thousand people. His people, who rushed to protect him also took several security agents hostage, finding bottles of acid in their pockets, intended to disfigure demonstrators.
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Observers and analysts hope that if the resistance can survive through the night, in the morning, people who sleep unaware of what is going on will join the uprising. Some of those woken up at random by phone calls showed very little interest, responding that replacing one Mullah with another gets them nowhere, so why risk their lives.

We can only pray that American intel has special forces in place for extraordinary circumstances such as this. Dr. Wheelerwent into Iran  with the Peshmergas;

Dr. Jack Wheeler: I went in with the RUK rather than other Kurdish resistance groups like Komala and the Kurdistan Democracy Party of Iran (KDPI) because they are the only ones currently actually fighting the mullahs.  The others confine themselves to "organizing" people for an "uprising."

I am all for uprisings against the mullahs and wish these groups all the best.  But frankly, folks with the cajones to take up actual arms against the Iranian Islamofascists appeal much more to me.

There's another reason I chose RUK.  All of the Kurdish resistance groups are secular and despise Islamic religious tyranny. But with one exception, all are left-wing, from socialist KDPI to crypto-communist Komala to hard-line Marxist totalitarian PKK. The exception is RUK.

The RUK leaders like Hussein Yazdanpanah embrace capitalism and the individual's right to own property, to flourish and get rich.  They despise Marxism as much as they despise Islamism.  They are eager for me to arrange for a pro-capitalist economist (like TTP's frequent guest author Richard Rahn) to come to Arbil/Hewler and develop a message to the people of Eastern/Iranian Kurdistan about how they can become free and prosperous.

My experience here convinced me that there are Kurds willing to fight for real freedom.  Such folks need to be supported.  Upon my return to Arbil/Hewler, I learned that while I was dodging mullah mortars with Kurdish Peshmerga inside Iran, at that very time on Saturday, September 30, President George Bush was signing into law the Iran Freedom and Support Act.

The new law states that it shall be "the policy of the United States to support efforts by the people of Iran to exercise self-determination over the form of government of their country."  It authorizes the president to support "pro-democracy forces in Iran."

We will not have peace in the Middle East, we will not be free of Islamofascist terror, until there is regime change in Iran.  The Kurds are the key to achieving it.

UPDATE: Endgame.

Iran Arrests Controversial Cleric

"Controversial." So BBC .........

An Iranian cleric, Mohammed Kazemeini Boroujerdi, has been arrested amid clashes between his supporters and police outside his house in Teheran.

Police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of his followers, who had formed a cordon around his residence.

In his sermons Mr Boroujerdi advocated a traditional interpretation of Islam which separates religion from politics. He is accused of misinterpreting Islam. 

Comments

[777denny]

I agree wholeheartedly that until there is regime change in the Iran, there will be no freedom from Islamofascist terrorism.

They are THE main State that is funding Islamofascism. Hizbollah would probably not be able to function as a group a fraction of the way they do today if Iran were to stop funding them. The terrible nexus between North Korea, Iran and Islamofascist terrorist groups would dry up overnight if Iran were delivered into the hands of the RUK.

I just hope that the US is hard at work not only funding the RUK, but actively working to destabilize this evil regime. Regime change from within is our best bet at overthrowing these wicked Mullas and their stanglehold on the population.

Military action against Iran's nuclear site should not be taken off the table, but I am afraid the consequences of such action could possibly trigger world war 3.

[tazzerman2000]

777denny, I agree with almost everything you say with the exception being 'possibly trigger world war 3'.

We are already FIGHTING WW-III. It might not be totally overt but have no doubt, we are.

This is a war like no other. We're not fighting in the open, state against state, but make no mistake about it, we have ALL the elements of a world war.

The sooner we realize this, mobilize accordingly and quit pussy footing around the true evil we're facing, the sooner we can get this war over with.

Yes, it's going to be bloody, I have no doubt about that... My question is this, do we has a society have the stomach for this fight?

Unfortunatly, I really don't think we do right now. I'm afraid that it might very well take an attack upon us, of massive and horrific consequences to finally open the eyes of everyone to the true face of the enemy. Something that dwarfs 9/11. I also have no doubt that our enemies have been or are actively planning this right now.

Even then, I fear that we will NOT be able to muster the fortitude and consensus needed to defend our beliefs and way of life.

I hate be a pessimist, really I do, but I just do NOT see us being capable of pulling together as a nation like we did during WWII.

[turn]

tazzerman2000,

I would actually argue that this is WW IV. From 1945 through the fall of the U.S.S.R. there were enough casualties in enough regions that we can look at it this way; the impetus of that war was quite different as well; socio-economic doctrines that cannot coexist. Marx knew and wrote that communism could only prevail if there weren't any capitalist nations left (because, as evidenced, people will do their damnedest to escape from a workers' paradise to a free nation every chance they get).

Now is different but with some ironic parallels. Consider: in every Soviet (and probably PRC) military or naval unit was a special type of rat with the title 'political officer'. His duty was to preserve the 'purity of thought' and 'out' any political deviants.

But throughout at least the 2nd half of this long conflict, the proletariat were universally cynical regarding their system of governance. Toeing the line was only out of fear.

["How does he know this", the reader might ask, and rightfully so. I worked for over a year for a man who swam Hong Kong harbor to escape the PRC; knew a woman math professor who escaped Ukraine with her son but left her brother in terrible jeopardy; and was backed-up by a band of free Poles less than 2 years after the Berlin wall was knocked down. Those guys had an unending stream of tragicomic jokes and stories of life under the thumb.]

So now we have an Imam instead of a political officer. And we have an enemy that are far from cynical about their governance--they believe that it is the Will of Allah and, with eyes wide open, credulously believe that if they fall in battle (loosely defined as even a suicide attack against civilians) they will awake healed in paradise with 72 dark-eyed virgins to accompany them through eternity.

Also, the tables are turned in another way: the cynicism is on our side. The lone superpower is so consumed with political division and the urgency to gain or retain power that our leadership (with the exception of the top administration) can't focus a sunbeam with a magnifying glass.

Europe (and to a lesser degree Australia, Canada and {sigh} the U.S.) have so embraced multiculturalism that cultural identities and differences are denied. I believe that if the democrats win the House and/or the Senate we will be hopelessly mired in blame and debate for years to come while the enemy will steadily gain ground by strategy and demographic.

Now then, more to the point of commenting on this post. Since borders were imposed in the Middle East and south Asia over the last one and one-half centuries, how many regime changes have occurred from within?

Ataturk's Turkey. +

The Shah of Iran in the early '50s then the '79 takeover by the Ayatollahs. -

1946 formation of Jordan. ~

Military coup in Pakistan, Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, fall to tribals of Somalia and on and on.

There is no cohesive understanding of nationhood in the understanding of most Muslims. It is allegiance to the tribe with the goal of the Ummah. These nations only hold together by brutal means.

The Kurds may want a homeland, but they aren't anywhere near strong enough to face-off the Iranian military. Couple that with the fact that Turkey would certainly step in and create a Western Front; a truly independant Kurdistan is anathema to the Turks.

Regime change in Iran (and P.R.N.K) will probably only happen by overwhelming U.S. force, and I hope we place zero boots on the ground until the fighting is over.

Imagine if only we had had 'Fat Boy' and 'Slim Man' in 1942. A lot of blood that was spilt would not have needed to be.

[clyde]

That's "Fat Man" and "Little Boy".