Yaalon on Iran: 'This regime will fall'
In a lecture in Modiin on Saturday, Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Boogie Yaalon said that he expects the Islamic regime in Iran to fall, but he does not expect its replacement to have any effect on Iran's nuclear program. "Since I was head of Military Intelligence, I have said, and I say it again now, that some 70 percent of Iranians are opposed to the ayatollah regime," Ya'alon said at a 'Shabbatarbut' event in Modi'in on Saturday. "[Opposition leader Mir Hossein] Mousavi and his wife have brought a new spirit of openness, and so I repeat - there will be a revolution in Iran."I think it might make a difference regarding the nuclear program in one sense: I'm hoping that the Iranians will get a regime that will be less willing to sacrifice half its people to destroy Israel. Maybe it will even get a regime that will decide not to weaponize at all.
"It's impossible to hide the energy there now, and the Iranian regime is going to have to take that into consideration," he continued. "It makes no difference regarding the nuclear issue, but this regime will fall."
However, he called the current turmoil in the Islamic republic "a very encouraging sign for the West," vis-à-vis the wider regional outlook, saying that essentially, it was a "confrontation between Jihadists and the West."
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:51 PM
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It was under Khomeini's reign that the Iraq/Iran war took place, shortly after the revolution and for eight years, and during which a great deal of martyrdom was propagandized and in fact took place, e.g., young kids walking into minefields and sacrificing themselves in that manner, for the sake of a certain "efficiency." So the jihadist vs. the West motif rings true from that perspective and for other reasons that come to mind as well.
Though for the regime "to fall," meaning the theocratic republic and the mullahs, that sounds like a stretch. But, what do I know compared to Ya'alon's knowledge. And, who knows? "Openness," that's at least similar to "perestroika" in another tongue.
I don't think the regime will fall. But the popular challenge to the mullahs has weakened their once unquestioned authority and compromised the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic they run. The fact the regime is living on borrowed time makes it all the more dangerous to Israel and the West.
You cannot kill an idea. It's always wrong to create martyrs, for every dead martyr you get 100 new living ones. The system will fall and with it the hate ideology and hate export/nuclear wipeout of Western countries madness. The now fighting people'll NEVER FORGET who helped them nevertheless.
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