. . . "We Waited More Than Four Decades for You, We Will Not Get Another Break"
"President Trump: For the world, for humanity, for Western civilization, please do not leave this regime in place -- or a secular military one that is just as fierce. We cannot wait another 50 years for someone like you again."
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"The Iranian regime is playing its game again: drag everything out to stay in power until the American public grows tired of high gasoline prices; or until the November midterm elections, when the Democrats might win; or until 2029 when President Donald J. Trump's term finally ends and he is replaced, with luck, by an invertebrate.
"Iran's regime has been using two tactics. It says: "We need time. We are, because of the strikes, fractured and our leadership divided." Or, as Vice President J.D. Vance naively noted on its behalf: it says it does not know what it wants. "The Iranians aren't themselves quite clear in what direction they want to go," Vance, with a straight face, told reporters at the White House; "they are also just a fractured country."
"That is exactly what the regime wants: that you are dumb enough to believe that. The Iranian regime knows precisely what it wants. It wants to stay in power to continue its anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, anti-Westernism and anti-its-own-people-ism. The regime wants to revive its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles programs; restore its terrorist proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis; try to create another noose of death around Israel; threaten Europe and eventually the United States; suppress, kill and execute its own people, and continue to export its fanatic ideology and Islamist revolution.
"The supposed "moderates" will say, " Oh please wait for us. We are so fractured! We just want to win over the hardliners -- and we are ALMOST there!" This dish has been served up for years. It works.
"The second ploy is "Drag, Drag, Drag." Drag the deals. Drag the talks. Drag the feedback. Drag the confusion. Or else: Put a deal out on the table and then take it back. Then put out another deal. Then another one. Before you know it, the West will be worn down." . . .
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a political scientist, Harvard-educated analyst, and board member of Harvard International Review. He has authored several books on the US foreign policy. He can be reached at dr.rafizadeh@post.harvard.edu
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