I agree with you on the Mullahs. They have been a huge disaster not only for Iran but for the region and even the world.
But how do you get rid of them internally and without getting a puppet of the west in place?
Look what is happening in Iraq. Saddam was a brutal dictator but at least in his early days so long as you don't get involved in politics you are free to do much as what you want to do.
Iraq was prosperous and secular. Now if you get foreigners to get rid of the Mullahs the same thing will happen.
But what difference does it make if a regime is puppet of China/Russia or puppet of the West? And just not being vehemently "ANTI-US" or "DEATH TO AMERICA" doesn't make one puppets. I'm in opinion that Iran should have relations with all the 202 countries in the world as long as it serves our national interests. Similar how Putin in one week goes from Tehran to Riyadh and then Jerusalem and then Ankara.
Fact of the matter is, smaller and weaker countries usually have to align themselves with certain powers to protect themselves against other powers. Right now the Mullahs may claim they are not Western puppets. Not exactly like either China/Russia are "allies" with IR, Russia uses them as a bargaining chip with America, and China uses Iran to dump all their garbage products.
Also, What Western Leftists (who only seem to know abut the 1953 coup in recent Iranian history) forget, is that before the Pahlavi dynasty and under Qajar era, Iran was being ran like a tribe with no focused centralized gov't or bureacracy. Pahlavis made Iran a relatively modern country and brought us to the 20th century. They established the first radio, buit lots of the roads and infrasturcture and opened universities and expanded women rights. Yes, they weren't perfect, they suprressed dissent, but they did a shit lot more than the current lot. I don't personally care if Shah sleeps on the same bed with both Americans and Russians, as long as the net benefit to Iranian citizen and society is positive. I'm not a purist unlike some on this forum, just being realistic. I think we can have a government that looks after our interests be it in relations to the West, with China or with Russia or other super powers. We don't have to be PRO-one or ANTI-one. at least not to extreme measures like now.
Anyways, entering the 4th day of COMPLETE INTERNET shutdown in Iran, except very few clips coming out from people who have sattelite connection with high leve of expertise. Over 200 dead so far, many cities looking like warzones, seen clips of IRGC shooting people from helicopters and on the roofs, and protests still ongoing. Persian Gulf league football games are postponed. Schools are cancelled still. The regime is terrified and they are cracking down harder than ever before. All the strength to my people, I wish I could help them in a more meaningful way than just explaining our history and story to foreign audience on these forums.
And almost ZERO coverage in any foreign media...I wonder why.
