This new divisions among Iran’s leaders are demonstrating the strength of the Iranian dissidents who have been paying the ultimate price for freedoms which Leftist ideologues take for granted in the West. The division weakens the regime further; its back is against the wall as Iranian leaders eye Venezuela as an escape site.
The protests in the Islamic Republic are more than political. The Ayatollah Khamenei is a Shia Marja, the highest authority in Shia Islam. The protesters are rejecting the Islamic Republic in such a thoroughgoing manner that many are rejecting Islam itself.
“IRGC officials hint at division in Iranian leadership amid protests,” by Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post, January 1. 2023:
Two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officials hinted at division among Iran’s leadership as anti-government protests continued to sweep the country in the past week.
Hamid Abazari, an IRGC official who formerly served as deputy commander of the Imam Hossein Training and Officer College, stated that senior commanders and officials had “failed and stood against values, [Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei] and the regime,” during the ongoing wave of protests in a speech last week reportedly broadcast on the local Tabarstan network.
Abazari also expressed condemnation of officials who had not condemned the protests and added that “first-rate officials of the regime” were among those who had stood against Khamenei.
The IRGC’s public relations department rejected Abazari’s statements on Saturday, stressing that this was Abazari’s personal opinion and “does not correspond to the existing facts.”
Additionally, Gholamhossein Gheybparvar, an IRGC commander in charge of a unit tasked with confronting protests and riots, criticized “some elites” for staying silent about the protests.
“Some elites were afraid of being harmed and damaged in their world and kept silent and were rejected, and you should know that religiosity does not come and go slowly, but religiosity has a cost,” said Gheybparvar on Saturday, according to Iranian media.
“In these two or three months, many were rejected; We do not deny the economic problems, high prices, unemployment, etc., but was it the right of the regime that anyone who comes can insert a knife into the body of the regime?”
The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute noted that “the protests and regime crackdown have fractured the Iranian political and security establishments.”
Criticism of the government from Iranian clerics and officials has increased in recent months amid the protests….
Walter Sieruk says
Maybe this could be taken as a sign, some people might even say an “omen,” that this horrendously vicious malicious and murderous Islamic tyrannical Islamic Islamic regime of Iran might be starting to collapse. At least let’s hope so.
David M says
Female chess player warned not to return to Iran after competing without a hijab overseas.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-chess-player-was-warned-not-return-iran-after-competing-without-hijab-2023-01-03/
Walter Sieruk says
That hostile oppressive malicious and murderous Islamic regime of Iran, which has the official title of “The Islamic republic of Iran” is bases on Islam’s Sharia.
So it should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. “For that future history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
Therefore, Sharia has no value or worth.
Thus, it’s no wonder that those despots in power in that Sharia based Islamic tyranny might fear the collapse of their regime for it has a very weak foundation which is Sharia.
In other words, the Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran is grounded on only a foundation of sand.