Both Pahlavi and Rajavi have been abroad for 50-something years. That kind of makes them outsiders and they probably won't get the same kind of fawning support from the do-gooder Western pot-stirers that the Ayatollah Khomeni got when he was heralded as a saint and shuffled off from France to make Iran a better place. If the mullahs do ever fall there'll still be those 75-85 IQ religious zealot thugs to deal with. I suspect that whoever will be the winner will be the side that puts all their opponents to the sword.
I'm not sure why the "gobsmacked" about the media (non)response to the Iran situation.
As the article says the mullahs are deeply involved in global terrorism, and leftists in general are supporting terrorists for being anti-America, so of course they're not going to be eager to draw attention to Iran.
I have the uncomfortable feeling that in any country with more than a certain percentage of islamists, the islamists are going to rule unless there is a strong man running the country willing and able to stomp on them, hard, as necessary. Iran may have no choices other than ayatollahs or a Shah.
I believe I can now see the significance more clearly on the world stage, and as much as I'd like for there to be more world peace, our focus should remain on the home front. They can either twist, or they can pay for our help. Like everyone tells me: "ain't nobody gonna help you but you."
Regime change from internal sources is legitimate..from external sources, not so much...let them fight the battle they need to fight, and be there to help when it comes time to pick up the pieces....
You’ve got to expect it from the ME historically and now from an entire swath of the globe. They will lie through their teeth with approval in a whole menu of circumstances and it’s a core tenet of Islam, and Westerners have a hard time with that concept.
I’m really grateful to Ian [thanks, Ian] for picking up the boulder of keeping an eye on Iran.
Excellent breakdown of the power dynamics at play here. The point about both candidates promising secular goverment but being potential 3rd world power players who might abandon those promises once in control is kinda prescient. I've seen this pattern repeat in other regime changes where the initial ideals get sacrificed once reality sets in. Really curious how the SAVAK baggage will actualy affect Pahlavi's credibility on the ground.
I must confess to being gobsmacked by your being gobsmacked..you ARE smarter than that...MUCH smarter..When was the last time the MSM reported on something that went straight against The Narrative (tm) when they could POSSIBLY avoid it? ("Islam is a religion of peace" isn't playing real well right now in downtown Tehran...We get very little news out of Iran (wonder why), so they figure they can ignore it, and maybe it will go away and they can pretend that The Narrative remains intact (for varying values of "intact")..Myself, I would be VERY surprised to see the MSM putting something like this on the front page...
We have long known that The Legacy Media are the lap dogs of the globalist cabal that George H.W. Bush entered us into 40 years ago. Expect nothing from them but intellectually bankrupt dross. As for Iran? I'll reserve predictions for what is next until after the tanks vote.
The western media are not media, they are propagandists, who know that their job is to sell narrative lines, not to report news. Either they don't know what narrative line current events in Iran might support, or they see the events in Iran as undermining to their preferred narratives.
The "narrative" is written by people paid into one pocket by China, the other pocket by Davos, and the shirt pocket by Qatar. I see little hope of anything resembling real reportage being published.
With that in mind, Mr. Pahlavi might want to ensure that his food-tasters are well compensated. He's certain to be disparaged by the "narrative", he'll have plenty of opposition in the country from the remaining religious people, and the bloom of revolutionary zeal will last about, ... oh, a week or so.
Dale Flowers notes the need to put the opponents to the sword. This gives me the opportunity to relate a Maxim, ascribed to Joseph Stalin (but likely not): "when a man is giving you a problem, remember, no man, no problem!"
Both Pahlavi and Rajavi have been abroad for 50-something years. That kind of makes them outsiders and they probably won't get the same kind of fawning support from the do-gooder Western pot-stirers that the Ayatollah Khomeni got when he was heralded as a saint and shuffled off from France to make Iran a better place. If the mullahs do ever fall there'll still be those 75-85 IQ religious zealot thugs to deal with. I suspect that whoever will be the winner will be the side that puts all their opponents to the sword.
I'm not sure why the "gobsmacked" about the media (non)response to the Iran situation.
As the article says the mullahs are deeply involved in global terrorism, and leftists in general are supporting terrorists for being anti-America, so of course they're not going to be eager to draw attention to Iran.
I have the uncomfortable feeling that in any country with more than a certain percentage of islamists, the islamists are going to rule unless there is a strong man running the country willing and able to stomp on them, hard, as necessary. Iran may have no choices other than ayatollahs or a Shah.
I believe I can now see the significance more clearly on the world stage, and as much as I'd like for there to be more world peace, our focus should remain on the home front. They can either twist, or they can pay for our help. Like everyone tells me: "ain't nobody gonna help you but you."
Regime change from internal sources is legitimate..from external sources, not so much...let them fight the battle they need to fight, and be there to help when it comes time to pick up the pieces....
Taqiyya.
You’ve got to expect it from the ME historically and now from an entire swath of the globe. They will lie through their teeth with approval in a whole menu of circumstances and it’s a core tenet of Islam, and Westerners have a hard time with that concept.
I’m really grateful to Ian [thanks, Ian] for picking up the boulder of keeping an eye on Iran.
And taqiyya’s sibling, kitman. Put together there’s no such thing as an unpardonable misrepresentation to advance the cause of Islam.
Excellent breakdown of the power dynamics at play here. The point about both candidates promising secular goverment but being potential 3rd world power players who might abandon those promises once in control is kinda prescient. I've seen this pattern repeat in other regime changes where the initial ideals get sacrificed once reality sets in. Really curious how the SAVAK baggage will actualy affect Pahlavi's credibility on the ground.
I must confess to being gobsmacked by your being gobsmacked..you ARE smarter than that...MUCH smarter..When was the last time the MSM reported on something that went straight against The Narrative (tm) when they could POSSIBLY avoid it? ("Islam is a religion of peace" isn't playing real well right now in downtown Tehran...We get very little news out of Iran (wonder why), so they figure they can ignore it, and maybe it will go away and they can pretend that The Narrative remains intact (for varying values of "intact")..Myself, I would be VERY surprised to see the MSM putting something like this on the front page...
We have long known that The Legacy Media are the lap dogs of the globalist cabal that George H.W. Bush entered us into 40 years ago. Expect nothing from them but intellectually bankrupt dross. As for Iran? I'll reserve predictions for what is next until after the tanks vote.
The western media are not media, they are propagandists, who know that their job is to sell narrative lines, not to report news. Either they don't know what narrative line current events in Iran might support, or they see the events in Iran as undermining to their preferred narratives.
I trust the words of a moslem less than gas station sushi.
could be worse!
They could be pure quill IslamoFascist!
The "narrative" is written by people paid into one pocket by China, the other pocket by Davos, and the shirt pocket by Qatar. I see little hope of anything resembling real reportage being published.
With that in mind, Mr. Pahlavi might want to ensure that his food-tasters are well compensated. He's certain to be disparaged by the "narrative", he'll have plenty of opposition in the country from the remaining religious people, and the bloom of revolutionary zeal will last about, ... oh, a week or so.
Dale Flowers notes the need to put the opponents to the sword. This gives me the opportunity to relate a Maxim, ascribed to Joseph Stalin (but likely not): "when a man is giving you a problem, remember, no man, no problem!"
To be fair, I am seeing a bit of MSM coverage of Iran, at least down under in Oz.
This story is on the top of the page on 9 Australia's site: What we know about the Basij, the shadowy paramilitary volunteers arresting and killing civilians in Iran's protest crackdown <https://www.9news.com.au/world/iran-protests-update-basij-paramilitary-force-crackdown-explained/23fa8255-d14f-499d-8171-a05a6cc556c9>
Note, it's not a fawning article, and even points out their use of rape as a control tool.