Iranian Threats: Prozac or Regime Change

Posted on June 4, 2006

Middle East’s oil supply would be jeopardized in case of U.S. attack, so says Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

When you listed to the Iranian leadership, one has to think, bi-polar or paranoid. They, the Iranian leadership, make a demand and when it is countered or incentives are offered they go down their slippery slope into 7th century paranoia .

In the latest round of diplomacy with Iran, the Europeans and the United States have offered Iran several incentives to resolve the issues at hand. Ahmadinejad said his government would not rush to judge the incentives package. Then, Khamenei kicks up a fuss and insists that his country has the right to produce nuclear fuel along with threats to stop the flow of oil from the Arabian Gulf. In his mixed bag of 7th century thinking, he then assures the world that the nuclear fuel Iran produces will not be used for nuclear weapons.

Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are now playing good negotiator – bad negotiator. They have been watching too much television. Depending on the day, they switch places. This weekend, Ahmadinejad backed off his usual rhetoric and Khamenei picked it up. Perhaps Khamenei and Ahmadinejad should start on Prozac therapy.

Anyway, the doomsday clock hands did not move forward this weekend because United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, discounts the threats and encourages dialog with Iran.

Will Iran toe the line of the international community? Or, will Khalmeni and his alter ego Ahmadinejad show the international community that regime is irreversibly committed to its dual-use enrichment program? Rice’s tack for diplomacy will force the Tehran government to show its hand.

As Rosemary pointed in her posted article,

‘Hello? Is anyone listening to the Iranian people?’

the late Shah of Iran’s son, Reza Pahlavi, proposed the solution to Iran’s percolating and fanatical signals is for, “the United States and free world to support the Iranian people.” Pahlavi insists that in dealing with the fanatical Tehran, “there is only one thing that the outside world can do, and that is to tell the regime: ‘We are serious about supporting the people who are inside Iran who are against you.’

Regime change is possible, not through invasion, but, through assisting the internal struggle of the Iranian people.

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One Response to “Iranian Threats: Prozac or Regime Change”

Bosun on June 4th, 2006 11:30 pm

The glass is half full or half empty?

Yes, Ms. Rice put Iran on notice, and she also encouraged dialog about the incentive program that the Europeans and US offered. We should not wait around as Iran moves forward. The late Shah’s son, Pahlavi, wants us to support the Iranian people struggle and their résistance. Perhaps that is a people’s solution.

Regime change is possible, by assisting the internal struggle of the Iranian people.