TRUMP AND NETANYAHU HAVE SHOCKINGLY UNITED THE IRANIAN POPULATION
It’s never been a good idea to throw kerosene onto a fire. Why? Well, besides the obvious, you can’t control an incendiary by throwing it onto a fire. It’s just as likely to explode in your face, and splash burning onto anyone nearby. But when it comes to the Middle East, and particularly the countries that have oil deposits, the world, the West and America in particular can’t seem to stop doing just that: throwing kerosene onto a fire. Yet this time it’s different, and much worse, than any other misadventure in the region ever before. Because this time, the strategy only entailed attacking, with the presumption that doing so would be overwhelming. Instead, the past few days show us an Iranian population united like never before. All because of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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ATTACKING IRAN DIDN’T UNITE IRANIANS, NOR DID THE ASSASSINATION OF THE AYATOLLAH
At first, you might be reacting to this declaration by assuming this is true just from nationalistic fervor, that Iranians banded together because their country was attacked by the United States and Israel. But that’s not the case at all. Only somewhere between 20-30% of Iranians supported the repressive and brutal leadership of the Ayatollah. Oddly, that’s a similar proportion to the only Americans that still support Donald Trump. But many Iranians were hopeful that this attack would free them from their conservative theocracy. And then the Ayatollah himself was killed, but that also didn’t serve to unite Iranians. So what actually did, even after a new Ayatollah was named, one who is even more conservative, more repressive?
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THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON 30 IRANIAN OIL REFINERIES MADE WAR MOTIVATIONS CLEAR
The answer is simple. When Israel attacked no less than 30 Iranian oil refineries. Because that single act, beyond making all oil processing in the Middle East targets for Iran, was make it clear that this attack, this war, was really about destroying Iran. Not freeing it. Not making a better country for Iranians, the region and the world. But destroying it, making it impossible for it to be a country, to continue their culture. This now all too real scenario is far worse than anything I could have expected in such a short time. Because now, most Iranians are together in supporting an incredibly repressive government to do whatever it takes to survive. Throwing kerosene onto a fire just doesn’t hold a match to what has actually happened.
And the blowback could burn everyone for years.
