ژورنال سایت خبری سیاسی ژورنال
What are the dimensions of the blow dealt by the killing of senior commanders of the Islamic Republic? This is the question addressed in ‘Foreign Affairs’ by Afshon Estowar, an analyst of military affairs and author of The Imam’s Vanguard: Religion, Politics and the Guardians of the Iranian Revolution.
Afshon Estowar writes:
“This is a massive blow. Israel’s strike eliminated a think tank that had directed Iran’s military strategy for twenty years.”
The leaders of the Islamic regime have shown no sign of offering an ‘expert opinion’ on what is arguably the most serious loss they’ve suffered from the assassination of military commanders. A government that constantly postures before its people as powerful cannot openly explain how its most senior military officials were caught off guard, helpless, and drank the poisoned chalice of martyrdom to the last drop.
Now, what the regime won’t say is being discussed in the streets, alleys, taxis and buses of Iran — analysed in detail by ordinary people. The Islamic regime has rotted from within. Selling secrets and spying professionally for Mossad (and, who knows, others) has become a well-paid job inside the Islamic Republic’s intelligence and security ministries.
The current situation sends a clear message to the Speaker of Parliament, the President, to Khamenei, his son Mojtaba, and a long list of military commanders: They too could end up like Mossad’s and the CIA’s victims.
Let us not forget: once it became evident that Hitler would lose the Second World War, some of his own generals tried to assassinate him — to bring the war to a close. Though those attempts failed, what is happening now — the assassinations of military leaders and nuclear scientists — is astonishing in its scale. Who knows, at this pace, what will follow?
To preserve its leadership and regime, the Islamic Republic might soon extend its hand to the Taliban — asking them to issue political protection for what remains of its command structure.
What strange days we live in.
