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Editorial2024-12-14 12:11:00

The fall of a dictator and the lessons not learned

Shkruar nga Esmail Mohades

The fall of a dictator and the lessons not learned

Today the theocratic regime is not even a paper tiger, but a wet rabbit. Today the world, even the blind, deaf and dumb part, has realized that the strength claimed by the Iranian regime is a bluff.

An ordinary Ali Khamenei in rhetoric, but more physically weakened, commented on the fall of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria with these words: "There should be no doubt that what happened in Syria is the product of a joint plan of America and Zionists. It is true that even a state bordering Syria had and has a clear role, everyone can see that. But the first ones were the main actors!".

Dictators will never understand their people, who they exploit in moments when they can rely on their faith. For their crazy plans, dictators take people to the streets, excite them, and then turn them into cannon fodder.

But when the latter abandon them and overturn the order of things, the dictators seem surprised and turn blindly to find the culprits. Even in democracy, when there is a crisis, when empty electoral promises no longer work, and when voters boycott polling stations, the reflection of politicians does not go beyond a sense of meaninglessness and the repetition of promises.

In his recorded speech on December 11, Khamenei claimed that Syria was simply the next country where regime change occurred. He pretends not to understand that the role of Assad's Syria for his regime was unique and irreplaceable.

He pretends not to understand that the overthrow of a terrible dictator and a brutal dynasty evokes genuine joy in the people, and because of the role played by Assad, this joy has spread beyond the borders of Syria. What will happen now in Syria will depend a lot on the Syrians.

But also from democratic countries, where cynical analysts are viewing the rebels with excessive suspicion, and already regret the alleged stability that was guaranteed by a bloodthirsty dictator who has just fled the country. Khamenei also forgot that after the absurd American invasion of Iraq in March 2003, which handed over the country to the Mullahs of Mesopotamia, his regime had land access to Lebanon and the Mediterranean precisely through Assad's Syria.

The exponential growth of Hezbollah after that moment is a fact that is neglected by many analysts, even Khamenei himself. The theocratic regime's leadership does not acknowledge that since 2011, when the Arab Spring arrived in Syria, over $50 billion of Iranian assets have been squandered to suppress it.
The Ayatollah forgets that Assad's army under the command of his Pasdaran bombed the Syrians, dropping barrel bombs full of explosives and chemical weapons on their poor heads, under the closed eyes of the Barack Obama administration, which was looking of a diabolical deal with Tehran over the nuclear program.

The leader of the mullahs' regime should boast that during the years 2011-2015, his Pasdaran, together with Hezbollah and tens of thousands of militia fighters next to it, massacred 500,000 Syrians and caused 13 million refugees.

Ali Khamenei forgets to say that during the advance of the Syrian rebels there was no resistance, neither from the army nor from the Syrian people, and even less from the Alevis, to which the Assad family also belongs, and who with 10 percent of the population held 70 percent of power in Syria since 1971.

Dictators are doomed to have no memory. They are doomed to have illusions, to listen to the words of an old and tired Khamenei! Before its fall, the Soviet Union had withdrawn in force from Afghanistan, and with Mikhail Gorbachev at the helm was forced to abandon East Berlin, where it had been based since May 9, 1945.

Khamenei's regime is much more fragile after Assad's ouster. The effect of the change in Syria will surely reach Yemen, run by the Houthi rebels, and will harm tens of thousands of Iranian militias in Iraq. The fallout from Assad's fall will hit Tehran's theocracy hard.

A very ambitious regime that has declared war on its own people, the Arab countries, the US and Europe and that also wants to destroy Israel: if this is not a simple and cruel illusion, then what can it be called? We have said earlier that with the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel through Hamas, the Iranian regime had bitten off more than it should have.

In addition to the dramatic killing of tens of thousands of women and children, it dealt heavy blows to Hamas and Hezbollah and toppled the Assad regime after half a century of rule in Syria. Today, the mullahs' regime will hardly be able to declare war and challenge half the world without being ridiculed.

Today the theocratic regime is not even a paper tiger, but a wet rabbit. Today the world, even the blind, deaf and dumb part, has realized that the strength claimed by the Iranian regime is a bluff. Because the regime of Velayat-e Faghih, due to its cave-like nature, has not been able to establish relations with its citizens, neighboring countries and anyone else in the world.

With a collapsing economy, with his entire people against him, with a well-organized resistance, with all the contempt of those who have remained silent and even supported his wild adventurism, the mullahs' regime will not be able to escape never from tragic fate.

The fate of dictatorships is written in human dignity. The fate of dictators in Iran is written in the nobility of an ancient people, women and men, who even in the third millennium made resistance their reason for life./ Adapted "Pamphlet" from "Opinione.it"

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