Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Some dear Persian friends of mine got out of Iran in the mid 80’s (they practice Baha’i) and they have been adamant as long as I have known them that the war has been an on going thing ever since the hostages were taken. So, spot on.
ome dear Persian friends of mine got out of Iran in the mid 80’s (they practice Baha’i) and they have been adamant as long as I have known them that the war has been an on going thing ever since the hostages were taken. So, spot on.
Not a war just against us, other foreign Muslims and Israel, but against most of their own people. I bet a lot of the officials of this murderous regime are beginning to fear what will happen to them if their own people rise up again and get their mitts on them.
Don,
Precisely. It’s a quasi-apocalyptic war. They really do see it as “Us vs. Them” and whoever “Them” are MUST be destroyed. Inside or outside the borders.
They want it to be manufactured
I have to admit that I’m not seeing any benefit to the Iranian people from this action. The Royal Guards are still in power, the new guy is just as extreme as the now dead old guy.
It’s great that less Iranians are being killed as the last leader was a butcher, but I’m wondering, is there going to be any regime change? It doesn’t seem likely unless America will supply weapons to the opposition, and that seems impossible at this point.
I’m not the most policitally sophisticated person, but I am wondering how this action is changing the situation in Iran itself.
The war is less than five days old. Perhaps we should not expect to be seeing the ultimate result just yet. The stated timeline for the mission was four weeks, IIRC.
And Ed Feser continues to make a fool of himself. Another sad victim of TDS.
I’m anxious about this whole enterprise.
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Someone needs to remind Dr. Feser that nothing has prevented Iran from having ordinary businesslike relations with the rest of the world. Saudi Arabia has managed it for a century.. Other countries once addled by revanchism gave it up after a while. See Egypt after 1973 or Algeria after 1979. You’ll recall the Reagan Administration made an attempt ca. 1985. To some extent Iran’s international stance may have been frozen in amber because the it has had only two rulers since 1979 and the second of the two was the deputy of the first from 1981 onward. He’s not acknowledging that Iran was the hub and supplier of an international criminal organization operating in Iraq, in Lebanon, in Gaza, and in Yemen (and those are just the places with paramiliarties). Iran has been engaged in FA since 1979, and Dr. Feser and various paulbots are complaining about the FO.
the new guy is just as extreme as the now dead old guy.
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What new guy?
Art Deco: Sorry, my mistake, there’s a temporary Ayatollah, Alireza Arafi, but he seems like a piece of work, and I can’t imagine a “reformer” coming out of this committee. We’ll see what happens, and keep praying for peace.
Link below to an article on the selection committee.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/1/iran-to-form-interim-council-to-oversee-transition-after-khameneis-killing
The little I know: there are thugs, urban Persians, rural Persians, and the military. I know what the thugs want, and I know that most of the urban Persians want the opposite. The other two groups, I have no idea.