Never the less, let's hope there is a real dislocation, and we end up seeing a mullocracy destroyed and replaced by a ???Even with Mousavi in power, Iran's foreign policy would likely be no different than it has been under Ahmadinejad. A 20-year absence from the public eye, coupled with dazzling words of change that skillfully capitalize on the "Obama effect" gripping the world, does wonders to beguile a young generation of supporters who never knew or have forgotten the radicalism and bloodshed that marked Mousavi's tenure as prime minister from 1981 to 1989 (the Iranian Revolution's most significant years).
Indeed, anyone believing Mousavi would be the one to unclench the Iranian fist for a hand-in-hand partnership of peace with the United States is guilty of wishful thinking. It was Mousavi, after all, who was at the center of the Iran hostage crisis and remains complicit in an operation he commended as "the beginning of the second stage of our revolution." And it was Mousavi who was the protégé of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (chief architect of the Iranian Revolution and founder of theocratic Iran), a former member of Hezbollah's leadership council, sworn enemy of Israel, and a prime minister under whose watch thousands of political prisoners were massacred in 1988. And finally, it was Mousavi who initiated Iran's nuclear program in the 1980s and likely would be intent on carrying through Iran's nuclear ambitions, the foremost issue central to any improvement in relations with the West.Ranj Alaaldin, a political researcher and analyst specializing in the Middle East, is a doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Could it be worse?
And that's why Obama should be calling to all freedom loving Iranians and quoting Jefferson and the Founding Bros, HOURLY.
Only a sweeping revolution justifies dialog and engagement, otherwise this is all a bunch of gas in a bag, and it doesn't make any difference if the mullahs accuse us of meddling or not, in fact they HAVE TO, otherwise all the agitation is GENUINE, LOCAL, SPONTANEOUS and dangerous to them, internally AND EXTERNALLY.
So we might as well SWING AWAY
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Epaminondas,
You make some compelling arguments. Truth of the matter is that the Mullahs wouldn't allow someone to run who truly opposed them and everything they stood for. Mah29001 had this to say about Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
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If real change is going to be accomplished in Iran, what it may take is it finally dawning on The People that the Islamic Republic and the mullahs per se are going to get them all killed over those nukes unless they take it to the next level and go for real revolution. And good luck to them. They are going to need it.
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