Hundreds of thousands of Iranians, including those who left Iran as small children, have fled the country since the fanatical Muslims took over in 1979, when Shah Reza Pahlavi was replaced by the troglodytic Ayatollah Khomeini. Many of those exiles are full of hope that Israel’s destruction of so much of Iran’s military, including nearly two dozen generals belonging to both the IRGC and the regular army who have been assassinated,, and especially the damage that has been inflicted by both Israel and the U.S. on its nuclear program, have so weakened the regime there is now a real chance for its collapse. They know that 80% of Iranians in opinion polls have expressed their opposition to the regime. . Now these exiles have been showing up to wave Israeli flags, call for more military action by by the IDF against Iran. Many of these politically active Iranian exiles have also been showing up to disrupt pro-Palestinian rallies. More on these pro-Israel Iranians can be found here: “The British Iranians cheering on Israeli bombers,” by
He’s got an Israeli badge on his black T-shirt, another Star of David on his megaphone and he’s screaming “IDF! IDF! IDF!” towards a seething crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Then Arman Yachui switches to Farsi: “God bless Israel! Bring back the Shah!”
Israel and Iran may be two countries at war, even if a ceasefire forced by Donald Trump is officially in place, but Yachui, 31, is one of a number of Iranians for Israel who believe only the Jewish state can save the country from itself – from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and his increasingly authoritarian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who have imprisoned, tortured and killed many of their friends and family members.
“Israel is bombing the Islamic Republic, they are not bombing our country,” says Yachui, who left Iran when he was seven. “And we need them to win.”…
Niyak Ghorbani, a prominent Iranian dissident, 39, who has been arrested 11 times by British police for brandishing a sign saying “Hamas are terrorists” in the middle of pro-Palestine demonstrations, talks excitedly of a new dawn for Iran. But speaking to The Telegraph after the ceasefire was announced, he too worried that the unfinished job had only made things worse.
“Israel’s strikes weren’t just military operations; they were symbolic moments. They sent a message to the Iranian people: We will not protect your killers. We stand with you.”
Those moments include the IDF strike on Evin Prison, a powerful symbol of the regime’s malevolence and cruelty, that had its gates blasted open, and the huge clock that for years displayed a “countdown” to the Jewish state’s destruction was instead smashed to smithereens by an Israeli bomb, turning a sign of the regime’s power to a sign of its impotence in the face of the IDF’s power.
He is bitterly disappointed that the action has stopped.
“A ceasefire with the terrorist regime of the Islamic Republic reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of its true nature,” he says angrily.
The ceasefire was not Israel’s idea. It was Donald Trump, who issued a diktat, and threatened the Israelis, forcing them to agree to a ceasefire just when the IDF had dozens of high-value targets already selected for destruction in Tehran. It’s not Israeli leaders who have a “fundamental misunderstanding” of the true nature of the regime, but President Trump, who believes he can talk Iran’s leaders into giving up permanently their nuclear program, and ending their attempts to funnel weapons and money to proxy groups like Hezbollah in the Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.
Right now, the Iranian regime is benefitting from a “rally-round-the-flag” response to Israel’s bombing of military sites throughout Tehran. But how long will that last, now that the IDF has stopped bombing, and the regime, with the Supreme Leader appearing after spending two weeks in hiding, in order to denounce yet again both the Little and the Great Satan, and engaging in that peculiar blend of rodomontade and braggadocio he has made his trademark. Surely the 80% of the Iranians who have declared to pollsters their opposition to the Islamic Republic will renew that opposition, and some will come round to the view shared by so many of the Iranians in exile, that they only wish Israel had not stopped its bombing. Much is made by both exiled Persians and Israeli Jews of the historic ties between Persians and Jews long before Islam appeared, and they remember how good King Cyrus in 586 B.C. freed the Jews from their Babylonian captivity, and made it possible for them to return to their homes in Zion and Jerusalem.
Jeffrey r fixler says
The problem is the 20% of Iranians who support the regime have the guns. I was talking to a young Iranian guy who teaches math at Perdue University. He pointed out likewise that the 20% hold the power, and are not going to capitulate to the 80%. In my view, this makes regime change rather unlikely at least in the next few years. I hope I’m wrong, but I fear I’m not. Still, defanging the regime was an absolute necessity, and was well done. Just hope they didn’t wait too long to strike those nuke sites. That should have been done years ago.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Unfortunately, the ceasefire that Trump forced on both sides has again done which many Iranian dissidents begged the West not to do – throw them a lifeline. Now w/ the ceasefire in place, the Iranians are now free to stop focusing on Israel and turn their attention towards their own people
As a result, the next rallies w/ “Death to America” chants by Iranians may be more authentic
abu taleb says
> Niyak Ghorbani, a prominent Iranian dissident, 39, who has been arrested 11 times by British police for brandishing a sign saying “Hamas are terrorists” in the middle of pro-Palestine demonstrations,
UK is supporting Hamas and Iran. They are really scumbags.