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Iran is heating up According to a number of articles sent out by the SMCCDI, government forces have touched off riots in a number of locations. Rather than give you news third hand, I will just let you read for yourself:
Violent clashes rock Oshnovieh
Workers peaceful protest turns into clash with security forces
Iranian Teachers Protest Again
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The next domino ready to topple?
Exxxcellant!
This breaking story:(Link)
BRUSSELS, Belgium – A group of unarmed Iranians staged a protest aboard a Lufthansa jet at the Brussels airport Thursday, refusing to leave the plane and calling for the return of the monarchy in Iran (news – web sites), officials said.
Color me unimpressed. This is not the first time I’ve read reports of ‘widespread mass rioting’ by SMCCDI. It’s always about to be the overthrow of the regieme. One time, they’ll finally be correct, and I’ll be tickled pink, but “I’ll believe it when I see it, and not one minute before.”
Ideas are like harmonic pulses. When they move through a flexible, unsettled medium, they may cause quivers and ripples, but eventually they are absorbed.
However, when a harmonic interacts with a brittle, fixed medium, like a wine glass, the glass cannot survive the flexing, and shatters.
Despotisms are weak, in spite of their seeming aggressiveness and cohesion, precisely because their claim of “perfect wisdom” cannot accept the rippling effect of new ideas, technology, or viewpoints. Unable to flex, as an open society does constantly, the fearsome totalitarian structure cracks apart and collapses.
Despots know this intuitively, so they attempt to restrict any contrary ideas, invasive technology, such as the internet or satellite TV, and repress viewpoints that might challenge the orthodoxy. All this effort is based on fear of contamination. Any system built primarily on fear is weak and inherently fragile.
The mullahs, bellicose and threatening, know their own people despise them. Like Adolph in his bunker dreaming of miracle weapons and imaginary offensives, eventually they will be forced to face reality. Then they will have to find their own hidey holes in which to seek refuge.
“Then they will have to find their own hidey holes in which to seek refuge.”
veryretired – I understand refitted septic tanks are nice this time of year. ;-p
True, they are a bit flowery and over the top a lot of the time. What interested me in this particular set of articles was that it seems to align with other things I have been hearing… but I do not have any other good sources by which to really cross check. So… “I link, you decide” 🙂
Sadly, Im with Ubu. Every few months the students announce they are on the brink of revolution, yet they don’t manage to pull through. I dearly hope they succeed, but I don’t think any of us should get carried away with thinking that the current ripples of dissent are going to make a big impact on Iran. They’ve been trying this for years and haven’t got anywhere. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Iranian mullahs are giving the Syrians tips on how to stop these kinds of protests. They’re damn good at it.
“Any system built primarily on fear is weak and inherently fragile.”
Sure. No way it can last more than 70 years, or so.
like the Soviet regime did. That would be 50 more years for the mullahs.
Jacob,
You are right, dictatorships, etc., can last quite a long time. We have lots of examples of such since WWII: Franco, Castro, Mugabe, the PRC, etc. Sometimes they collapse like the regimes of Marcos and Pinochet, but there is no guarantee of such.
My hatred of democracy has a little spin on it tonight – in comparison to the repressive dictatorship in Iran, democracy is wonderful, beautiful, magnificent! Roll on the SMCCDI (whether you’re telling the truth or not)!
While you’re at SMCCDI, check out this story (Link)about a certain lady senator from New York who is cozying up to the mullahs’ friends in the U.S at a fund-raiser this week….
John,
Why the hell would they want a return of the monarchy? Maybe Iran jumped from the frying pan into the fire by ousting the Shah, but the Shah was still the frying pan. And its not like the Shah didn’t have all sorts of military ambitions.
re: SMCCDI
SMCCDI is a one man show operation. He belongs to Monarchist group and even though he is every right to voice his opinion, you should be aware and do not think that there is a big group behind it.
I agree about SMCCDI:
While I wish they were correct, stories on SMCCDI similar Iranian sites are often unreliable.
Lets be honest here. The story reads like propaganda:
“Women were seen throwing stones and even eggs on the security forces which resulted in heavy damages made to several patrol cars and injured several militiamen.”
Heavy Damage? Are the Iranian police worried about the eggs ruining the paint job?
And the whole Arab invasion angle throws up a huge red flag.
I take Iranian news with a huge grain of salt, blogs or MSM (for different reasons).
The key to veryretired’s analogy is in finding the correct pitch, and then amplifying it.