The IRGC, the regime, and the long shadow.
Withdrawing security protection from subordinates-turned-critics now targeted by the Iranian regime for their public former roles in pursuing anti-Iranian policy during the first term.
Halting refugee flights for refugees targeted by the Taliban regime swept back into power with the sudden withdrawal of American troops at the end of the first term.
Do you sense the double face behind these moves?
Condemn the terrorists, help the terrorists?
Read Orwell
Read the room
You can run to Russia… But you can’t hide.
May Assad face justice soon.
Meanwhile,
Congratulations to all the rebel factions, religious and secular, and especially to the Kurds, who have been kicking regime @$$ for years and aren’t getting any kudos now for some reason. 🧐
They’ve been dreaming of this moment for years. Many of us have. Assad was a cruel dictator who disregarded human rights with impunity, and as a loyal puppet of the Ruso-Iranian axis who was no friend of liberal democracy in general and of Israel in particular. It is a good thing that he is gone.
But he is gone and now the assorted members of the resistance in Syria all have to come together and fill the vacuum that Assad left behind him. Preferably with something that isn’t equally as terrible as the Assad regime. Even more preferably, with something that can rebuild Syria into a strong, liberal ally – and not another hot or cold war enemy – of Israel, their anxious neighbors of old sitting just south.
In the meantime, we’re watching what unfolds and praying for righteous – good – people to win out, seize the day, and lead Syria out of the civil war that has ravaged it, towards the brighter future Syrians (along with everyone else in the Levant) deserve.
“In that day, Israel shall be a third partner with Egypt and Assyria as a blessing on earth.”
Here’s to hoping.
It’s been a day. The ceasefire got off to a rocky start but looks like it’s holding.
May it be permanent.
May it spread.
May it give us a moment’s rest to catch up with our thoughts and our emotions.
May we seize the moment and bring in a new governing coalition. May we seize the opportunity and investigate everyone and everything responsible for Oct 7 and the year that followed. May we seize the hour and make the changes that need to be made, holding accountable those who need to be held accountable.
May we confront the Ruso-Iranian axis that seeks our destruction, with the help of the Highest and the Torah we were given. Not with strength, not with might, but with the spirit of the Lord.
May we prosper in peace and may we rebuild – ourselves, our land, and the homes we have destroyed in this war.
May this all be a sign of better days coming.
Ebrahim Raisolsadati (Raisi) שם רשעים ירקב was known as “the Butcher of Tehran” for his tenure on the government’s prosecutorial committee, in which he was responsible for the deaths of thousands of political prisoners (that’s totalitarian-speak for dissidents). His fundamentalist politics represented the betrayal of the ostensibly liberal student movement which won the Iranian ayatollahs their revolution. Note: That wasn’t the last time Iranian totalitarian fundamentalists would recruit student revolutionary movements to their cause.
May Khomeini and his cronies take note: Death comes to us all and we all face the consequences of our thoughts, words, and actions on that day of judgment. Better to build a better world of which the true prophets taught than to amass worldly power under the banner of hating Israel, a people selected by the Creator to teach the world of the Creator’s involvement in human history, as the prophets of the truth taught. Who knows what went on in the mind of the Butcher of Tehran in the seconds before he died – even the shamelessly wicked can still repent their ways and gain a sliver of some true meaning in existence, if not actual rectification for their crimes.
As for us, the living witnesses of the Creator’s judgement – it’s never too late to reconsider what we think, say, and do.