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Jan 28, 2026
Editor: I will focus my attentions on the final paragraphs of Stephens diatribe!
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Iran’s traumatized protesters might have been energized by a U.S. attack when they were still in the street; they would probably be unwilling to risk their necks again. The regime has surely learned the lesson of Israel’s successful strikes last June against its top commanders and is hiding its leaders much more effectively. Last year’s Israeli strikes on Iran’s ballistic missile sites did not keep Iran from restarting production lines once the war had ended. And a U.S. attack, even one that carefully spares civilians, will also reinforce the regime’s propaganda about perfidious Uncle Sam.
Weighed against all this is a different set of risks: of the example of a U.S. president who urged protesters to go in the streets and said help was on the way only to betray them through inaction; of missing the opportunity to cripple an enemy when it is vulnerable, uncertain and — despite its show of force — internally divided; of giving it time to recover its strength, knowing that when it does it will again pose a clear and present danger to the United States and our allies.
And something else: Do we really want to live in a world in which people like Mohseni-Ejei, the judicial leader, can terrorize people with utter impunity? Have decades of vowing “Never again” — this Tuesday marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz — taught us nothing more than to offer pro forma condemnations when thousands of protesters are gunned down by modern-day Einsatzgruppen?
I know that, for now, thoughtful Americans are much more alarmed by the thuggish killing in Minneapolis on Saturday of Alex Pretti and by the smears to which he’s been posthumously subjected by senior members of the administration. I also know that the president who is so grotesquely at fault for inflaming the situation in Minnesota makes an unlikely champion of protesters in Iran.
But if Pretti’s death is a tragedy, what do we say or do in the face of the murder of thousands of Iranians? Are they, as Stalin might have said, just another statistic?
Editor: The Reader doesn’t need to wonder about the crass moral reductionism, of the the final paragraphs of Stephen’s attempt, at what to mame it? The Reader need only look too the Western amimus to the birth of the Iranian Revolution. Keeping in mind the murder of Iranian Scientests by Mossad, and the fact that Western Powers nurture the internal dissident’s that Stephens presents as heroic figures. ‘Pretti’s death’ is reduced to mere background to the heroism of Iranian Dissidents!
Iranian Revolution, popular uprising in Iran in 1978–79 that resulted in the toppling of the monarchy on February 11, 1979, and led to the establishment of an Islamic republic. It involved the participation of a wide range of Iranians—from the secular left to the religious right—who sought an end to the shah’s autocracy and Western interference in the country’s policies. The revolution found expression in the form of Shiʿi Islam, which many supporters considered to be a unifying element of Iranian identity and culture, and ultimately in the guidance of Ruhollah Khomeini, an accomplished religious scholar critical of the shah who had articulated, as an alternative, a populist form of government overseen by a spiritual authority.
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https://www.britannica.com/event/Iranian-Revolution
Editor: Not forgetting the natural animus of a Zionist hysteric, and his political alligence to the Zionist State, and his time at Jerusalem Post!
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