Wasting Time With Alex

Michael Ledeen on those Iranian elections

Michael Ledeen has again put into words what I have been trying to point out about the recent Iranian elections: they are fixed, and fixed from the start, so buyer beware. We must resist the urge to speculate on the elections based on the false belief that Iran is a democracy. It is not. Iran is a hard core dictatorship run by an oligarchy of supposedly religious people. Some would call it a theocracy, but the bastards claiming to be religious leaders are far from being anything but evil men with dreams of conquest & Iranian brand Islamic domination of the entire globe. So these elections do not reflect the will of the people - the will of the people has not existed since the Iranian revolution took place in 1979 and these tyrants took over - but the will of the top mullahs:

The Iranian electoral ritual doesn’t tell us what the people want; it tells us what the tyrants have decided. This time, the decision had to do with the very intense power struggle going on inside the regime, catalyzed by the recent evidence of the worsening health of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. In considerable pain from his cancer, for which he consumes a considerable quantity of opium syrup, Khamenei recently was forced to spend 2-3 days in a Tehran hospital after complaining of a loss of feeling in his feet and breaking out in a cold sweat. His doctors told him several months ago that he was unlikely to survive much past the end of March, and he seems to be more or less on schedule.

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With Ahmadinejad, the mullahs bared their fangs to us. Convinced they were winning in Iraq, foreseeing the destruction of Israel, the domination of Lebanon, a jihadist reconquista in Afghanistan and the expansion of their domain into the Horn of Africa, they gave us the face of the unrepentant conqueror. He’s played his role well, and he will continue to play it. Just yesterday he proclaimed that Iran has become “a nuclear power,” leaving us to wonder exactly what that means. Is it the bomb? Or is it a technical advance that will lead to a bomb? Whatever it means, it’s an act of defiance, a reassertion of Iran’s will to prosecute the twenty-seven year old war they have waged against us ever since Khomeini’s seizure of power.

The war policy is not in dispute among the rulers of Iran, whether they call themselves reformers or hard-liners. Nor is the decision to use the iron fist of the regime against any and all advocates of freedom for the Iranian people. What is decidedly at the center of the current fighting within the regime — a fight that has already produced spectacular assassinations, masqueraded as airplane crashes, of a significant number of military commanders, including the commander of the ground forces of the powerful Revolutionary Guards — is the Really Big Question, indeed the only question that really matters: Who will succeed Khamenei?

And there you have it. These elections were about who will be the next top dog, and the message to Ahmadinejad was that he will not be that man. While it is not clear whom they think should get that top job, I expect Ahmadinejad to not take this rebuke lying down. In my opinion this nutjob really believes the role he is playing, and I can see him turning on his handlers. Hopefully we take advantage of this and do whatever we can to destabilize the Iranian government as much as we can while at the same time give help to those resisting this government and trying to get Iran out from under the yoke of these evil bastards. At this time when Ahmadinejad is claiming that Iran is a nuclear power - a bold lie because that will not happen if Israel, the main target of the Iranian regime, has anything to say about it - and also telling us that America, Great Britain and Israel will vanish of the face of the earth like the Pharaonic Egyptians, freeing the Iranian people from these lunatics would go a long way to preventing the coming nuclear conflict in the Middle East.