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Some revealing man-in-the-street interviews in Iran, where hatred of the regime has put many people on the side of Israel, and made them receive with pleasure the news of Ismael Haniyeh’s assassination, can be found here: “Iranians side with Israel, even against their own regime,” by Emily Schrader, Ynet News, August 5, 2024:
For 45 years, the Iranian people have been subjected to a dictatorial Islamic government that prioritizes support for terrorism and enables rampant levels of corruption, over the wellbeing of the people, the Iranian economy, and the future of the state itself….
While Iranians endure a cratering economy, with the leaders of the regime have been enriching themselves. Ayatolah Khamenei now controls a “financial empire” worth $95 billion, according to a six-month investigation by Reuters. How much of that he has pocketed for himself and his immediate family is unknown. But he’s likely to have far exceeded even the three greedy leaders of Hamas, whose net worth— four billion dollars for Khaled Meshaal, three billion for Mousa Abu Marzouk, and four billion for the late Ismail Haniyeh — all comes from aid money that foreign donors intended for the people of Gaza, but instead it went to a handful of thieves living in Doha.
How bad is that Iranian economy? Consider only this: in 2015 a dollar was worth 32,500 Iranian riyals. Today, a dollar is worth 650,000 riyals. The riyal has thus depreciated to one-twentieth of what it was valued at less than a decade ago. Many Iranians have seen their life savings evaporate. And they are enraged not just at the corruptions at the top, among the ayatollahs and the IRGC commanders, but also at the spectacle of their government spending billions of dollars to supply their proxies in the Middle East — the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza, and especially, Hezbollah in Lebanon — with money and expensive weaponry. How much, they wonder, of Iran’s wealth has gone to supplying 200,000 rockets and missiles for the Lebanese terror group?
That is why Iranian protesters shout not the slogans favored by the regime: “Death to Israel” and “Death to America,” but, rather, “Death to Palestine,” “Help us, not Gaza,” and “Leave Syria alone and deal with Iran.”
Ynetnews spoke with Iranians in the aftermath of the historic assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Iranian soil to see their feelings and reactions regarding a potential war against Israel. As there are currently Iranians on death row for speaking to Israeli media, we cannot publish the names of the Iranians interviewed for their own protection.
“Overall, the Iranian people are extremely pro-Israel and reject the regime’s warmongering, but multiple Iranians expressed concern about operating on Iranian soil. F, from Tehran, stated, “I was worryingly happy as he [Ismail Haniyeh] got what he deserved, but I’d rather he was dealt with someplace else.” He added after, “I also had a good feeling that potentially some Iranians were involved.”
“When asked about the possibility of an all-out war between Israel and the Islamic Republic, most of the Iranians Ynetnews spoke with expressed more fear of the Islamic Republic than of the IDF. “I personally am not scared of Israeli retaliation because I know that IDF and Israeli officials see us Iranian people on their side and would do whatever they deem necessary to minimize the collateral damage as they did with the case of Haniyeh.”…
On August 6, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced that Iran’s message of an intended attack was delivered to Israel via Hungary’s Foreign Minister, who called Katz directly to relay the information. If Iran follows through, and it can hardly back down now that it has made this announcement to the world, the IDF will undoubtedly destroy the key infrastructure on which Iran’s main source of wealth — its oil exports — depends, which is the Kharg Oil Terminal, located on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf some 25 kilometers off the coast of Iran, through which more than 90% of Iran’s crude exports are shipped. What will the people of Iran do? Rally round the regime that has brought them to this world of woe, or rise up against the ayatollahs and the IRGC? This time, unlike in the past, if Israel delivers such a blow, a humiliated, defeated, and impoverished regime will not be able to suppress its own people.
Very brave of them to show their support for Israel like that and they quit talking on the Giant American Flag in Trehan as well and this must upset the liberal University leftists scum
That is a hopeful prediction.
But it can’t be relied upon.
And, why haven’t any attempted a coup? Are the ayatollahs and the IRGC that self-protected that a group of Iranian people cannot rise up and kill off enough of them to bring their country back under civilized control?
I remember so well the green shirted people in Iran….that soon got stopped. Let’s pray for these people.
Imagine a world without the Mullahs. Why the fear of taking action? Oh, their use of Oil Blackmail and plus we don’t want to get them mad so they’re free to burn down the world. Imagine if they got mad?
God bless those people. They have more sense than any American leftist could ever hope to have.
One consideration warranting against a strike on Iran’s export facilities is that it would result in an immediate spike in world oil prices. And you know who would be blamed: the J*ws. On the other hand, a strike on sites buttressing the regime – the headquarters of the Basij, for example – would be cheered by the Iranian people. In the end, taking down the regime is the only way to end the threat of regional war.
Israel and the USA must decapitate the Iranian Ayatollah Islamic regime.
The general Iranian population wishes for the decapitation of the Ayatollahs.
The Iranian Ayatollah Islamic regime must be crushed and vanquished once and for all.
I would also recommend doing the same to the Qatar, and Saudi, and United Arab Emirates ” Royal ” Islamic families.
Decapitate and decapitate and decapitate
needs to be the US and Israel and Europe’s and the West’s foreign policy towards all depraved psychopathic murderous berserk violent freedom crushing hate-filled Islamic regimes.
If we could capture their leaders alive, and shave off their beards on national television, the restive natives would love us for at least two generations.
I believe Tom Jefferson at this point would agree.
I wonder if the fact that Kharg Island is such an obvious target is what is holding back the proposed attack on Israel?
THIS IS HUGE. The people of Iran want Freedom just like people in other countries. Oppressive regimes are never popular or sought after and always take over by authoritarian means.
Apparently there are also many converts to Christianity in Iran. It is not, by all accounts a monolithic muslim country.
You are right, 2/3 of their mosques have closed as millions are turning to Jesus, and there’s nothing the mullahs can do about it.
Under the Shah Iran was very pro-Israel, he keep the Middle East calmer.