Do you think Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad and former Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister Mousavi can remember 30 years ago?
That was a generation ago.
That was when the Shah of Iran was toppled and the US Embassy taken over for 444 days by the student radicals and protesters and revolutionaries of that day.
That was their heydey…and I’m sure they remember it well.
I suspect they would like to keep the new generation from doing to their power as they themselves did to the Shah’s power.
But how do you bring out into daylight the new generation of student radicals and protesters and revolutionaries…where you can ID them and/or arrest them and/or demoralize them and/or eliminate them?
And how do you increase the odds that in the process you might snag some agent provocateurs of the foreign sort — especially Israeli and American?
You stage a fraudulent election! 😯
So those three men (Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, and Mousavi) got together with other Iranian power brokers and planned the whole thing.
Is that my belief, my accusation? 🙄
Oh, don’t be silly!
On the other hand, I do not find such a scenario to be impossible or even improbable.
I just don’t know. And neither do you.
But I read it here first. And so did you (I suppose).
Now we’ll see if it develops legs.