Iran: Will the Mullahs Come Out of the Closet?
“The opposition” in Iran!
It has been a long time since we wrote or read about an “Iranian opposition”. There has been no such serious opposition since the early 1980, when the revolutionary regime took advantage of Saddam Hussein’s foolish invasion in order to crush all opposition.
Will they now take advantage of an even more foolish Israeli attack to clean up house again?
There now is, for all practical purposes, a well-defined opposition. Actually an opposition alliance of many former and current regime leaders. Hashimi Rafsanjani is definitely still among the current leaders of Iran. If he keeps his positions, he will be the opposition within. But he has been such a consummate insider that I have doubts about his commitment to real reform.
This is new in Iran, and to a large extent new in the Middle East, with the exception of Lebanon. If it continues, which it just might given the broad spectrum of former and current leaders who are part of it, it will break the hold of the extreme conservatives on power.
Either that, ot the regime will have to go public, sort of come out of the closet, and declare itself just another Middle Eastern oligarchy with pretensions of representing the popular will; just like most of its neighbors to the west.
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