Iranian hardliners
I’m not going to write much about Iran today. My opinions haven’t changed substantially, and I don’t trust much of the analysis coming out. I certainly plan to say a lot more over time, but right now I just don’t have much to add.
But I wonder whether this has any meaning, or is just some form of theater (I actually think that way about a great many of the statements on both sides):
Iranian ultra-hardliners have launched a fierce campaign against a newly announced framework agreement with the United States, labeling it a humiliating capitulation that betrays the ideals of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The strongest backlash has come from the Paydari Front, also known as the Endurance or Steadfastness Front, which is a small but vocal faction of ideological purists. The group positions itself as the guardian of the revolution’s anti-Western principles.
Either they mean it – which is somewhat encouraging, because it might indicate that the “deal” isn’t a total capitulation on our part – or they don’t. If they don’t, they’re laughing at us behind the scenes and celebrating.
They mean it AND they’re laughing?
I have a theory that the present diplomatic scene between the nations is the Iranians, trying to figure out what they have left, to bully with – I see they’ve announced the Strait is closed again, now that the US has lifted the blockade – and the USA, trying to decipher who is actually in charge, and more importantly, where the hole they’re hiding in, is. So that they can move things on to the next person in charge.
Om said: 96 hour rule.
That makes sense to me. Day-by-day makes me crazy.
Neo: But I wonder whether this has any meaning, …
If you can wait 96 hours, you’ll know.
When you go to war with a fully committed, monstrously evil and absolute mortal enemy… you don’t let them get back on their feet after being knocked to the ground. You end them…. permanently because given another chance they’ll end you with no chance of mercy.
Islam like ALL totalitarian ideologies, shares the dialectic of the Left; “When I am the weaker, I ask you for mercy because that is YOUR principle.
But… when I am the stronger, I show NO mercy because that is MY principle.
“That Ben Gvir post that everyone is sharing aghast? It is a perfectly normal and common Israeli view, held by millions. It is the Israeli mainstream, and not extreme in the least. I grew up hearing that endlessly”
https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/2067997301382238619