Iranian Foreign & Resistance Front Strategy & Operations

[Shafagh]

Iran's superstitious and individualistic/entitled people are not up to the task of developing these institutions or working for the common benefit.

I think Iranians suffer from the same cultural problems as many east asian countries, notably Koreans and Indians. They are either xenophobic, extremist, and racist, or they are so obsessed with emulating white western culture, that they never bother building something compatible to their homeland. They often end up selling out. Indians especially. That's why you see so many Indian Republicans try harder than whites to be gung ho Americans and emanate white culture. They marry white spouses and ditch their traditional names for white anglosaxon names, in order to curry favor (no pun intended) with traditional conservative white Americans.

Unfortunately, Iranians are a close 2nd place. Say what you want about Mullahs, but there really is some gharbzadegi embedded in our culture.

I just think the Mullah approach to this made it worse.

 

[kastor ville]

It looks like someone is reading our posts.....I know wishful thinking. I also the source is not great....but it's just an article of what the man said.

Former TV chief warns Islamic Republic faces collapse without reform

A senior Iranian official has called for sweeping changes in the country’s system of governance, warning that without reform the Islamic Republic risks “war, collapse, or chaos,” according to remarks published on Thursday.

www.iranintl.com

 

[kastor ville]

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Good post on why Iran has failed for hundreds of years and continues to fail at essentially everything. He brings many good points that users here frequently ignore or deny:







Despite what people often claim here, Iran will never become a a prosperous, powerful, or influential nation, with or without IR. Iran will always be a victim of more advanced and civilized nations because it lacks basic institutions most civilized nations developed centuries if not millennia ago, and Iran's superstitious and individualistic/entitled people are not up to the task of developing these institutions or working for the common benefit.

In summary:
Conditions will worsen

Dude, this guy is bang on! He really nailed it. It's a great macro lens on what's wrong with us.....we all know in this forum bits and pieces of what is wrong with our style of government, but we rarely drill down to what is the root of our issues dragging us, and making us fall behind. It's our culture, it's our over reliance on the "Strongman" rather than the merit of the many....I mean the many individuals coming together following clear, well defined policies with multi year arc if not decades. The whole setup of this government is so wrong....we have the Artesh, and then we have the Guards, we have a navy, and then we have the Guards, we have the Guardian council and then we have elections...? We have a Supreme leader and then a president......this is a joke, man.

 

[BigMela2onin]

Like what?

During the caliphates, many of them adopted Persian administrative structure and institutions. In fact, during the Turkic caliphates, Persian became the standard language for administrative affairs. Empires like the Turco Persian Seljuks adopted Persian institutions for governance; administrations for managing tax collection, diplomatic affairs, law and order etc.

Of course, these are nomadic cultures having to adapt to permanent settlements. The easiest way to make that transition is to just use what is already there. It does not mean they are efficient systems.
Modern Iranian universities and military academies don't produce innovation but rather reproduce what already exists and often poorly. It's why economists coming out of Iran's universities are indistinguishable from an American Chicago-school economist. It's why our engineers can't do anything but reverse engineer what they already have.
Our military academies are not effective at teaching modern warfare. Our generals walk around the battlefield putting themselves in danger and often get themselves killed. Army exercises look like what you would see during the Cold War. After a few years, they resorted to fighting the Iran-Iraq war like it was WW1. They completely neglected having an air force, a major factor in most military conflicts since WW2, until they saw how weak they are without one!
I suppose I should rephrase my earlier post, these institutions exist but are ineffective and outdated.

I think Iranians suffer from the same cultural problems as many east asian countries, notably Koreans and Indians. They are either xenophobic, extremist, and racist, or they are so obsessed with emulating white western culture, that they never bother building something compatible to their homeland. They often end up selling out. Indians especially. That's why you see so many Indian Republicans try harder than whites to be gung ho Americans and emanate white culture. They marry white spouses and ditch their traditional names for white anglosaxon names, in order to curry favor (no pun intended) with traditional conservative white Americans.

Unfortunately, Iranians are a close 2nd place. Say what you want about Mullahs, but there really is some gharbzadegi embedded in our culture.

I just think the Mullah approach to this made it worse.

Yes, you're absolutely right. I have myself said that most Iranians are political extremists in one way or another. Conservatives refuse to adopt any aspects of modernity at all and cling to failing and outdated societal organizations while many diaspora Iranians want to copy-paste western culture in Iran overnight.
There are many examples of how countries adopted modernity but preserved their own culture. Actually, if we use one of the east Asian countries you mentioned; Iran needs to undergo a process similar to the Meiji Restoration in Japan.

 

[mangekyo]

Like what?

During the caliphates, many of them adopted Persian administrative structure and institutions. In fact, during the Turkic caliphates, Persian became the standard language for administrative affairs. Empires like the Turco Persian Seljuks adopted Persian institutions for governance; administrations for managing tax collection, diplomatic affairs, law and order etc.

True, but that was a very long time ago, when we were the more advanced civilization and others were still borrowing our systems and knowledge. Since then, others caught up, modernized, and surpassed us while we largely stayed in the same place. And after 1979, instead of moving forward, we took even more steps backward.

 

[Homajon]

Iraq quietly mediates between Iran, Syria in effort to thaw relationship

Political sources told The New Region that Iraq is working behind the scenes to repair ties between Iran and Syria, whose once-strong alliance has cooled after Syria’s new government took power.

thenewregion.com

This is a pan-kurd source, so I don't know how credible this article is.
But in general it is clear that secret talks are held. Sooner or later Iran always gets back what it "lost"....Iran lost Sudan and finally got it back.
And Syria knows that it is geo-politically a nobody without Iran.

Is Russia seeking Iranian buy-in on post-Assad Syria?

The story: A visit to Iran by Russia’s special envoy to Syria has fueled speculation in Tehran that Moscow may be seeking Iranian engagement with the new Syrian leadership. The visit notably comes amid apparent Russian efforts to adjust to the new...

amwaj.media

Sooner or later Iran always gets everything back

 

[Eşbah]

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[Khorasan Black Flags]

nuke test of zionist Americans ☣

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Armed force denied Iran get any airdefence from China during war and and.........

 

[kastor ville]

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What's naive's is this 80 some year old man's policies for Iran. Slogans don't put food on the table... Slogans don't put money in the coffers of the government.

 

[FUB]

Armed force denied Iran get any airdefence from China during war and and.........

Why would they admit that? They do not need to advertise what they are doing. Not all of the cargo planes from Russia are bringing in Smirnoff Vodka.