Perhaps the most malevolent tyranny in the world today is the theocratic dictatorship created by the mullahs in Iran. Seventy-five million Iranians are oppressed by the ageing and increasingly psychotic Supreme Leader - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who wields ultimate power together with his puppet president Ebrahim Raisi- dubbed ‘The Butcher of Tehran’ due to his blood-soaked background as an executioner.Only a derisory 8.2% of the population participated in a recent sham poll for members of the Majilis (parliament), indicating forcefully the people’s rejection of the mullahs’ regime. Repeated nationwide uprisings, like the one which took place in 2022 following the death in custody of the young Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini, have been brutally crushed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – the regime’s Gestapo, and their thuggish militia colleagues the Basij. The UN is now investigating reports that 750 people were killed in the 2022 uprising, while a further 30,000 were imprisoned. Many have been raped and tortured and a number have been executed in what the UN fact-finding mission describes as a crime against humanity. But as Iranians enter a New Year or Nowruz, they should not despair.History is full of examples where dictatorships have been overthrown.
Adolf Hitler and his fascist friend Benito Mussolini thought that they could rule the world. Hitler even declared that he was the founder of a “Thousand Year Reich.” It lasted only 12 years. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of decades of dictatorship under the Communist Party. Popular uprisings, economic instability, and political reforms led to the dissolution of the Soviet regime and the emergence of democratic........