by Mark Armstrong
This time may be different, according to the mainstream press we’ve learned not to trust. You may remember the last uprising in 2009, called the Green Revolution. President Obama was more interested in making a nuclear deal with the mullahs, and did nothing to support those who at the time thought they had a real chance of overthrowing the Islamic regime. The regime won out, arresting the leaders of the uprising and quashing the movement.
It is different this time in one respect. The regime has never gone on a killing spree the way it has in recent days. The Iranian military reportedly chased some two hundred protesters into a swampy area where they tried to evade capture. But they weren’t captured. They were shot dead. The mullahs won’t even say how many have been arrested, but you can guess that they are being treated with monstrous brutality. The damage done in the uprising so far involves 731 banks, 183 police cars, 1,076 motorcycles, 34 ambulances and 70 gas stations. That’s according to the New York Times.
Not since the Islamic Revolution has Iran seen anything like the recent uprising. That is when the “demonstrators” successfully overthrew the Shah, and the American President (Jimmy Carter) turned his back while preaching “human rights.” In the intervening forty years, Iran has been a hotbed of hatred toward Israel and the United States. Carter obviously didn’t realize that beyond the hostage crisis that was set off, there would be forty years of Islamic terror to follow. Iran has been instrumental in starting wars, like the one still going on in Yemen, and has infiltrated Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, and most recently attacked Saudi Arabia. The Islamic regime, headed by the Ayatollah Khameini who succeeded the original Khomeini, is widely reported to be the world’s foremost sponsor of terrorism.
The regime is openly hostile to the United States, threatening our destruction as recently as last week. They routinely mount “death to Israel, death to the United States” chants and seem to revel in them. Now they have their hands full. After ruinous sanctions, sponsored by the U. S. and enforced upon European businesses, Iran’s leaders saw fit to increase fuel prices by 50% overnight. It hasn’t gone over well among the middle class and “working poor,” as the mainstream is reporting. Rowdy demonstrations broke out across the country, with people lighting fire to every symbol of the regime. Not only that, they are openly calling for an end to Islamic theocracy.
Tehran is a beautiful city with a touch of dignity. That’s because it was built by the British. Not much has been accomplished in the way of modernity since the Islamic revolution resulted in the madmen taking power. They do have their religious enforcers in the city streets, making sure women are scarved and appropriately draped in Islamic garb. They’ve shut down the internet which means that people cannot communicate as usual, and that is only fueling anger in the streets.
One explanation for Russia’s easy annexing of Crimea is that Obama needed the Russians to support the Iran deal, and therefore allowed them to take Crimea from the Ukraine with nary a whimper. You surely haven’t forgotten the pallets of shrink-wrapped currency secretly flown in by the Obama administration. But those days are over. President Trump has been overtly aggressive toward Iran, canceled the Iranian “nuclear deal,” and imposed a litany of sanctions against Russia. Where things are going this time is anybody’s guess.
