Sigh, all that brainpower thru the decades and they just never under stood Iran. To bad they never asked me. I'll tell you a story at the end of this and it will give you an idea of what were dealing with, how half measures will never be enough, and how absolutely we can never let them have the bomb.
Iran's Islamic Republic has used diplomacy as a shield while building terrorist networks and proxy warfare capabilities threatening U.S. national security.
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The conflict did not begin with the nuclear issue, sanctions or regional expansion. It began in 1979, when Iran was transformed from a key American ally into a revolutionary headquarters. The seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was more than a diplomatic crisis; it signaled that the new regime would derive legitimacy through permanent confrontation.
Washington's misperception of the regime dates back to the revolution itself. Many American policymakers viewed the upheaval through the lens of anti-monarchical politics rather than Khomeinist ideology. The result was the greatest strategic loss of the Cold War: America lost a key ally and gained a radical state aligned with anti-Western forces across the
Middle East.
The rebellious coalition surrounding Iran’s then-leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini extended beyond traditional clerics and included Islamic terrorist actors aligned with broader anti-Western movements. What emerged was not merely a new government but a transnational ideological project. Washington underestimated that transformation then and has often underestimated it since.
Khomeinism became the ideological engine of the regime, combining religious absolutism, anti-Westernism and political violence. This is why Washington has repeatedly misunderstood Tehran. The Islamic Republic is not merely a regime with whom America has policy disagreements. It views survival and confrontation as inseparable, while anti-Americanism, hostility toward Israel and the export of revolution remain central to its identity.
From the aftermath of the 1979 upheaval, Tehran began building transnational networks. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and later the Quds Force cultivated and directed regional Islamic terrorist movements, eventually creating the "Axis of Resistance" — a transnational evil network stretching from
Lebanon and Iraq to Syria and Yemen.
Two years before this, in 1977 before I ever put on a uniform and swore to protect my country, Myself and a bunch of friends went to D.C. where the Shah was to visit Carter. No we weren't Iranian but a friend was and his mother was big into pro-Shah groups and she got us free airline tickets and hotel stays for that week end and all we had to do, besides drinking and playing poker, was show up at some Pro-Shah rally as he and Carter kissed on the front lawn of the WH across the way.
So were sitting there checking out the babes and hitting on them when suddenly thousands of these masked Lunatics came running at us across the parkway carrying bats and big sticks, and wearing home made masks, and proceeded into our crowd in some make shift bleachers and started pounding the shit out of everyone they could. It was almost like they appeared out of thin air and caught everyone from surprise.
They beat without mercy kids, woman, the elderly, no quarter was given. I was on crutches at the time from a sprained ankle playing football and I threw one to a buddy and started swinging the other one braining as many of these sonsofbitches as I could as we pulled kids and the elderly away from them. We were saved by park police mounted as the horses went bananas and stomped and kicked the shit out of them while the Army surrounded the WH and clobbered everyone with tear gas.
That was my first experience with Islamic Fundamentalism. These were anti-Shah forces, college Visa holders, and infiltrators from Canada. All military aged males and I couldn't help thinking at the time "how in hell were they allowed into our country to pull this radical Islamist attack on peaceful demonstrators ?
Of course now its common. That screwball Biden Inc. let in illegals by the millions and who knows how many sleeper cells are waiting for attack orders ? But this was 1977. Yes there was a lot of Islam inspired terror attacks back then but they were 30 second clips on the nightly news.
And it was then that I realized there is no legit Diplomacy with this bunch. No deals made that they would honor. Hirohito's Japan was far different. Japan was a Industrialized society and Shintoism thru-ought history was never a religion as we know religions. Shinto has no founder, no scriptures, no fixed dogmas, and it has no connections to militarism or even politics. Its an ancient belief in the "way of Kami" and it was more a cult then a religion as we know them.
Even if we bomb Iran to the peace table they can never be trusted to keep any deal thats not in their interests and the ruling elite will use any amount of force to stay in power, showing no mercy in keeping it.
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