At Some Point, Repeating Myself About Iran Gets Old Even for Me [UPDATED]

Nothing about the Iran war will surprise me, especially the American people's indifference (until it affects their gas prices)

Image created by author from publicly available image of Ayatollah

Note: See the update at the end of this post, and thanks as always for reading.

At some point, some of us keep repeating the same things, and it’s pointless to try to press on with more argument.

Today, as I watch the newest American attacks against a sovereign nation, I’m a little disgusted with the American people, who will shrug their shoulders and carry on with their day until/if gas prices start making them nervous.

No interest in the welfare of the Iranian people. No interest, let’s be honest, in the American kids being attacked in retaliation by the Iranians.

Is Iran, essentially, a terrorist state in word and deed? Hell yes. But where has the outrage been over its treatment of women over the last decades? And where is the outrage over the treatment of women in all the oil kingdoms that are currently aligned against it during this latest war?

This is not our fight unless all outrages are our fight.

This war is another Trump distraction. As Iranian kamikaze drones fall on U.S. military bases in places like Bahrain, the American people will become furious with Iran, not Trump, over the Iranian response.

I’ve already written about this twice, so I have nothing more to say.

Thank you to my readers, who already know the story and support my writing.

And don’t forget the new Maga anthem…

Update

Now that Iran’s “Supreme Leader” (the press calls him that because they’re training themselves for a third Trump term) has been killed, let’s look at his likely successor, who was named today as part of the committee to choose the next leader, which, in turn, means it’s him, because he’s the cleric on the committee and clerics have final say over almost everything in Iran.

Image of Alireza Arafi by Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Alireza Arafi is a hardline cleric whose background derives from the Revolutionary Guards.

Like most ayatollahs, he graduated from a fundamentalist hate school in the cleric capital of Qom, which has about a hundred more of these guys lined up to take his place when/if Israel kills him, too.

He was named prayer leader in Qom in 2015, which I assume means you could hear his calls to prayer from the local mosque. I actually think those are kind of cool.

He was named by Khamenei, the dead “Supreme Leader,” to lead Iran’s seminaries in 2016, which means Khamenei liked the guy a lot. This means you can expect more repression and anger from the fundamentalist haters who are entrenched as part of this authoritarian regime.

Trump and his feeble-minded minions think that if Israel removes Iran’s leaders, the regime will fall.

That’s not how it works. The Revolutionary Guard and their administrative agents in the Guardian Council, of which Arafi was part, have had 40 years to perfect the art of embedded authoritarianism.

Khamenei didn’t kill 30-50,000 protesters a few weeks ago. His Revolutionary Guards and their associates in the 20 million man strong Basij paramilitary did.

Imagine if MAGA has been in power for 40 years, with the American Taliban at the head of the table. Many of the Basij are volunteers who don’t mind being unpaid, because they enjoy chasing women down the streets of Iranian cities and arresting them for wardrobe malfunctions. Fundamentalists have infiltrated every layer of government in Iran: federal, provincial, and local.

That is our future, too, if we don’t deal with our own internal situation now.

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