Looking behind the Iranian Revolution Mk.II |
History is replete with revolutions and coups when military forces ousted a ruling government and took control of the reigns of power. From Julius Caesar to Idi Amin, from West Africa to South America, the instances are too numerous to count.
Since the first day of the latest attack on the senior leadership of Iran, none of the pundits or “expert commentators” has been able to paint a coherent picture of what is actually going on inside the opaque bubble of Iran. What they have done is to swallow the story the Iranian powerbase has been pushing out, that there has been a steady and ordered transition of power since the deaths of the top echelon of the Iranian government. “Statements” read in the name of the so-called “new Supreme Leader” have been taken at face value as a mark of the progression from the old ayatollah to his son. But somehow, the stories don’t gel. The gaps tell a more coherent story than the text.
For what it’s worth, the following is my “non-expert” assessment of what actually happened in the immediate aftermath of the........