Iran's tyrants turn to internal purges
Fri Jul 8, 2022 Hugh Fitzgerald
Iran is in a parlous state. Its economy is in a shambles. The Iranian
rial has lost 90% of its value in the last three years. 80% of Iranians
now live below the poverty line. Its farmers are suffering from the
worst drought in fifty years, made worse by the mismanagement of water
resources. Exports of Iranian oil have sunk to about one million barrels
a day. Unemployment has surpassed 10%, and is now three times that in
the United States. All over the country, Iranians have gone out on the
streets to protest the corruption of the leaders and the mismanagement
of the economy; the regime has answered their calls for an end to the
regime – the cry “Death to Khamenei” is unambiguous – by ordering that
the protesters be beaten up and arrested. The mysterious deaths of a
half-dozen high-ranking Quds officers has led to an atmosphere of fear
and despair. No one is quite sure who is responsible for the killing of
IIRGC commanders and other military men. Is it a foreign adversary, that
is, Israel, with its Mossad operatives, or domestic assassins who
belong to the increasing opposition within the country, or members of
the regime itself who are either settling scores with political rivals,
or eliminating extra-judicially those whom they suspect of being
traitors to the regime and therefore deserve to die? The free-floating
suspicion has not spared anyone. In late June the highest-ranking
suspect so far, Brigadier General Ali Nasiri, was secretly arrested and
charged with being a spy for Israel.
A report on Iran’s paranoid regime is here: “Iran’s regime increasingly unstable, turning to purges out of fear,'” Israel Hayom, June 30, 2022:...........To Read More....
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