obama

Very interesting points made here

Iran is a complicated case. I always argue for baby steps towards democracy based on modernity and civil society. 

Dead On

We have forgotten that IRI was invented by  Khominie who copied Joe Stalin's system

So external enemies is part of the equation and  total control is the other. Just wait till they start shipping people off to Islamic work camps one of these days

Merci for your comments! Colonel, U disagree= I feel vindicated

Colonel, no country should interfere in another country's business. Iran should overthrow the regime by the Iranians, not the American. Iran shouldn't interfere in Iraq's business either. The reality, however, is that they do to our disliking.

Colonel, how do you suggest to get rid of this regime? Please!

Obama, You are Right!

to the points.  IRI/IRR & His supporters are bastards.

Obama: spot on. thank

Obama: spot on. thank you.

Sargord: How's your Presidential campaign going?

Obama,

You're right, IRI has strengthen itself with these useless sanctions which till now have just helped its brutal repressive system, and more specially Sepah, to become stronger.

Each sanctioned article in Iran is now sold in black market, held by Sepah. These tugs like so much their lucrative smuggling that they now control the sale of narcotics that they do enter from Afghanistan.

Further, IRI has always relied on external enemies to survive: it was the American hostages at the beginning of the revolution, then it came the Iran-Iraq war and then Bush and now Israel-and the entire world.

To know in which extend you're right on that point just look at Sargord Pi^2's comment, who is a full-time cyber-recruit, drinker of Beer, opposing anti-IRI views on the net.

I absolutely agree with this writer (Obama with Seebil)

Regimes such as IRI, Israel, GWB thrives on fear and can not survive without it. This is particularly true in case of Iran where there is no freedom of speech or political descent. One thing that this regime has got going for itself, is the hostility from the West and Israel and often people will unite against any outside force. For one thing all these threats and hostility causes people to unite against the outside force and it gives the IRI that pretext (that does not need) to be even more brutal in dealing with the opposition and labeling them as collaborators.

Mehrdad

sargord

never mind politics...tell me about your community school. Was it in Qom?

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Obama, this can't be..

I actually agree with you. All along you've been ranting about this and that.......kind of all over the place, but this post is precise and to the point.

Indeed, you cannot rely on the west for "saving" Iran, or any other country for that matter. At the same time, I do not blame them for taking advantage of others when they can - we would if we could, on the grand scale known as imperialism.

If you give free rides, people will hop on and ride.....

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Obama

writes: "US and allies should instead focus on tightening the grip on IRI's international transfer of money which is mostly IRG's and corrupt officials. Deny them acquiring the parts for the nuclear arms. Cut off their hands from transferring money to the west. Push for human rights and democracy."

Not half bad for an amateur like Obama.

Sargord, aka, Starbucks clerk, writes: "Islamic Republic’s legitimacy is irrevocably grounded in hostility to the United States."

Exactly, Sargord! YES! You finally got it right!

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I agree with you that IRI uses external enemies, threat of war, and economic sanctions to unite its people, consolidate its power, perpetuate its rule.....

Obama, that's a false and

Obama, that's a false and completely ahistorical argument that the Islamic Republic’s legitimacy is irrevocably grounded in hostility to the United States.

The US and the West have no business interfering in Iran's internal affairs- period.