I am aware of the wish for some western, as well as Iranian political pundits with European ties, to have a cosmetic “make-over” of the current regime in Iran, by bringing back the Khatamites and Rafsanjani types into power, and then call it good.
The Iranian people and true democrats, however, wish to have a secular democracy which means the current regime must be eradicated as a whole, i.e., the total and complete elimination of the regime with all its “Reformists” and hardliners alike.
A detailed historical biography of the criminals in charge, nor a laundry list of the atrocities committed both by hardliners and Reformists are good accounting, but they do not have any strategic value. The people in Iran already know and feel the atrocities committed by Khatami, Rafsanjani, Mesbah, Ahmadinejad. Listing things is certainly great for human rights organizations, or historians, but serves no intrinsic global, political or strategic value. It is venting frustrations at best.
Let the hardliners roll. They will bring the end of themselves AND the totality of the regime (including the European Darlings, the “Reformists” who so many Iranian pundits love to advocate) sooner.
What is foolish is to advocate a return to a “Euro-mullah” regime in Iran. In fact, it borders on treasonous.
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