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| Iran’s grand strategy has fundamentally shifted |
| 2023-08-17 |
| [Shafaq News] Since the 1979 revolution, Iran’s leadership has single-mindedly attempted to dominate the Middle East and drive the US and Israel out. Throughout, Tehran has relied overwhelmingly on the proverbial stick to do so: trying to subvert the Arab states by blackmail or insurgency while waging a relentless terrorist campaign against the US and Israel. While those goals haven’t changed, the Iranians appear to have altered their grand strategy in a fundamental way. We can never be certain because Iranian decision-making is always opaque, but Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate suddenly seems to have discovered that carrots can be useful tools of foreign policy as well. Almost everywhere you look, Tehran is now offering positive inducements to cooperation and mostly throttling back on its strong-arm tactics. The question now facing the US is how to adjust its own policy in return. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Tehran is now offering positive inducements to cooperation and mostly throttling back on its strong-arm tactics. They ran out of money to pay for all of that mayhem? The 'necessary baksheesh' to pay for all of the Iranian regime's internal corruption must cost them dearly. |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-08-17 13:53 |
| #1 This is a Baghdad based news org with a generally pro Shiite slant. More pro Iran than most Iraqis. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2023-08-17 07:58 |