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What’s happening in Iran is quite simple to understand. The people of that land are trying to rise up and throw off the yoke of Islamic tyranny that hold 90 million of them captive. And it’s this truth which explains the stunning lack of media interest in this genuine people’s revolution. It’s hard for our legacy media to accept that the Persian people don’t want to subject to the tyranny of a bunch of malevolent Shia dictators who have imposed their will of the people by force.
Many of us will recall this image from 1979 when the Ayatollah Khomeini was flown back to Iran and seized power for the Shia theocracy, escorted by Air France.
Almost instantly, Iran was changed. A pluralised cultured people became subject to the strictures of Shia Islam. Women were forces to wear the veil and pluralism died.
Whilst Iran was secular under the Pahlavi dynasty, religious belief remained part of daily life. The government promoted modernisation and secularism, including banning the hijab in 1936 and centralising control over religious institutions! In essence it tried to keep Iran as a modern west-leaning nation. That came crashing down with the fall of the Shah. I am not saying the Pahlavi dynasty was perfect but it was a damned side better than that which followed. Many Iranian families had little option but to flee the Mullah autocracy and that explains why we see such huge protests around the world. Here was London yesterday.
This was Toronto in a snow storm …
These people know what they lost to Islam and they want it back. But the Mullahs are armed and ruthless. It will take the full power of the US to defang these tyrants and that carries all kinds of risks. The alternative is to do nothing and allow the massacre of the innocents. That is unthinkable.
It is three weeks since President Trump posted this on Truth Social.
It’s overdue, President Trump. Let’s roll….
