From its inception in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has presented its Mullahcracy as an absolutely bizarre incongruity that has confounded the rest of the world. Yet, throughout its almost half-a-century existence, this Shi’a monster, called the “Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists” – in Pharsi (Persian) the “Velayat-e Motlaqaye Faqih” – has been an internally limitlessly strained, economically suffocated, socially alienated (from the overwhelming number of its multiethnic population), yet regionally defiant and strategically aggressive power. Comprehending this fabricated contradiction is essential for all other policymakers and the worldwide public alike, especially as the United States of America, the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, the European Union, India, as well as the rest of Asia, and the Muslim Ummah are edging closer to multiple confrontations.

Domestically, the Islamic Republic of Iran is governed by an evil version of Islam, sold as a divine political system, in which Allah is the only sovereign who bestowed his powers upon the “Supreme Leader,” which has lost all of its religious cum semi-ideological legitimacy. Accordingly, the Rahbar, namely the Ayatollah, is not elected, but empowered by God. Turnouts in elections, both local as well as national, which are politically meaningless, have collapsed to almost zero, especially among the young and urban........

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