A “Moderate”’s “Hero”

A moderate or a hard liner, whatever name we give them, the two fractions inside Iranian regime have their discrepancies. Parliament, economy, international relations as well as mosques and religion are platforms each fraction uses to push the other side off the edge and to get a bigger piece of cheese. Nevertheless what brings discords within factions of Iranian regime is what that has unified them. Khamenei, the Supreme Leader or  Rouhani, the president, or other mullahs, whether a member of parliament or chief director of prisons, all have a common terrifying nightmare day and night. That is how to keep the lid on the bottle not to let the monster come out. The deprived citizens of Iran are looking for a chance to disseat the so called “Islamic Republic” of Ayatollahs.  It happened once in 2009 and can happen in 2016. This is why Rouhani calls the daily executions as the “will of God” and Khamenei tries to export his “Islamic Revolution” to Iraq, Syria or. ....

In 2009 when mass uprisings swept all over Iran, while being beaten and stabbed by security forces , Iranian masses sent a message to United States in their own language : “Obama, Obama   ba ounaii ya ba ma?” The message was turned into English when it reached Washington, “Obama, are you with them or with us?”. “Them”, of course, meant the ruling mullahs which turned to be the enemies of the Iranian people. Very soon Iranians received their reply by the administration’s private telephone conversations with Khamenei and it’s insisting to find a remedy for Iranian side in the nuclear talks.

It could be that Iranians, who posed the original question, did not have much awareness of protocols and interests that formed the responsibilities of western politicians. Nonetheless what became dominant, in the ensuing years and through the talks with P5+1, were new phases of friendship and affection between US administration and Iran’s Ayatollahs. The good work continued conquering new political arenas one after the other. The world witnessed the elongated beauty of love and friendship between the American Secretary of States and his Iranian counterpart. We cannot, of course, deal with everything at once let us talk nuclear now and put trivial matters, such as human rights or terrorism, for some other time. Illogicalities remained unanswered. They included while United States talks about peace in Syria, Mullahs are sending terrorists to annihilate Syrian people and to keep the Syrian dictator in power.

Fortunately the wishes of Ayatollahs did not come true. Triumphs of Syrian fighting groups got to new echelon whey Iranian dictator failed to besiege new forces to fight in Syria. Many low or high ranking members of IRGC or even the regular army lost their lives on Syrian soil. This defeat of Iranian regime exposed new contradictions.

On May 13, as regular meetings between US and Iran’s foreign ministers continued, media in the west and in the Middle East reported of Iranian  foreign minister Mohamed Javad Zarif sending his condolences to Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nassrollah, on the day the party was burying Mustafa Badreddine a major figure in the Hezbollah. As one of Hezbollah’s top military commanders, Badreddine is believed to have played a role in the 1983 Marine barracks bombing, and then a few months later the bombing at the American embassy in Kuwait, where he was caught and sentenced to death.  He escaped from prison in Kuwait after Iraq invaded the country in 1990. The U.N.’s Special Tribunal for Lebanon indicted Badreddine for the 2005 assassination of the former prime minister of Lebanon, Rafik Hariri. The killing deepened a sectarian divide in Lebanon’s politics that still affects it to this day.

 Since 2011, Badreddine has been running Hezbollah’s military operations in Syria, Responsible for the murder of many innocent civilians. For the Islamic Republic, the 55-year-old Badreddine was seen a hero.  Mr. Zarif, this “moderate” friend of the Obama administration wrote to Nassrollah, “that martyrdom of this great commander Mustafa will further strengthen resistance forces against the Zionist and terrorism”.

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Badreddine, 55, was one of the highest ranking officials in the Hezbollah, a Shi’ite group established by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that has a long record of crimes committed against the people of the region, particularly of Syria, and Lebanon.

No matter their discrepancies, Zarif and other terrorists in Iran’s tyrannical regime are wanted by the Iranian people. Politicians can win, or lose, the historical moments of to be “with them” or “with us”. Iranian people will get what they deserve, “A regime Change”.