Good detail on the chips playing within the Islamic regime right now on the hardliner side.
What could be argued is that it is actually helpful that it is the hardliners (not the Reformists with European ties, e.g., Khatami, Rafsanjani, etc.) who now have the upper hand in the regime. The reason being that the hardliners will serve to heighten tensions both with the Iranian people as well as with the west. This intensification of “irreconcilable antagonisms” between the Ahmadinejad camp on two fronts (with the people of Iran and externally with the free world) will undo the totality of the Theocracy in Tehran sooner, rather than later.
This is, of course, not what the proponents of the “Reformists” in Iran want, which is namely, the preservation of the Islamist regime but in its old European-supported (Khatami-style) form.
Unfortunately, there are some signs that even some US administration officials, especially in the state department, are amongst those proponents.
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