The death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last week has set the fervid imaginations of journalists in western mainstream media alight as the pile fuel on the fire of revolution and regime change. Sadly, because the Islamic republic’s social and economic degeneracy is crying out or change, Iran's regime appears more robust than commentators in liberal media are prepared to admit As is generally the case when the mullahs find themselves under pressure, their default position is to blame the West which is exactly what they are doing now.
Vast crowds at the funeral of Iran's President Raisi do not suggest the regime is in any trouble (Picture: Politico)
The helicopter in which Raisi died was simply not equipped with the blind flying gear necessary for the weather conditions it was flying in. In the warped
universe leaders of Iran’s theocracy inhabit, the helicopter crash that killed Raisi
and seven others, including the foreign minister, was not due to the
inadequacy of the aircraft to fly in the prevailing weather conditions but with the West for imposing the sanctions
that have denied Tehran the ability to purchase the upgrades required enable the US Bell 212 helicopter in which the Iranian
leader perished to 'fly blind' when the ground is obliterated by heavy cloud or mist.
Only another revolution by the Iranian people can unseat these murderous mullahs! I hope that happens. Unfortunately, the word Islamic permits all sorts nonsense in the psyche of Muslim populations. Islam with its requirement for unquestioning belief in the incredible makes it incompatible with democracy. So, one can only hope for the least worst type of regime to emerge.
With regard to the cluelessness of the west about how to deal with regimes like that of Iran (or either Russia or china for that matter,) the simple fact is that the (UK) Foreign Office is stuffed to the rafters with mediocre graduates who earned degrees in Politics, Philosophy and Economics or Political Science at Oxford and Cambridge and eith joined the civil service or became Special Advisers (aka SPADS or Gofors,) on the personal staff of some politician.
Few of them have any experience of working in the real world and most are from priveleged backrounds and so have little understanding of the lives and concerns of the people whose lives will be affected by the failings and vacillations of the political class.
Such are not people driven to seize advantages for the UK or even to promote British values. They are intellectual lightweights without the wits or ambition to pursue objectives beyond their sole grail of moving another step up the ladder.
The idea of one of these spineless creatures challenging the murderous despots of Iran or any other large and powerful tyranny is far closer to a delusion than a hope. They are pathetic weaklings justifying their pathetic weakness with the even more pathetically weak excuse of 'keeping diplomatic channels open', although how they can think that blindly following the lead of warmongers in Washington offers a means of maintaining diplomatic relations in the long term is a mystery.
The idea of one of these spineless creatures challenging the murderous despots of Iran or the murderous hegemonic ambitions of the American deep state is far closer to a delusion than a hope. They are pathetic weaklings justifying their pathetic weakness with the even more pathetically weak excuse of 'keeping channels open'. For what? To shovel more and more taxpayers' money into the pockets of gangsters, fanatics and grifters?
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