Hi Ryan,
Very interesting article. You talked about the fact that Ahmadinejad believes that God has tasked him with the new revolution. Since I know these so called officials from up close, I can assure you that Ahmadinejad is no more religious than those who rape in prison under the name of Allah. He uses this sort of language to fool his followers. He knows very well that many of the things he said and does is heresy in the very religious he is supposedly so zealous about! He lies on live TV, he suppresses, he tortures and… to keep the Islamic Republic in power. That is the main goal of the Ahmadinejad tribe. To stay in power. And I don’t personally think it has anything to do with God. We hear a lot of things here in Iran about the family members of these officials who are in power. Most of them are drowning in their own moral corruption! Believe me, I know. So don’t believe what they say about “carrying out the will of God” and so on. They want us to think that they’re religious and actually believe in the stuff their doing. But they’re not.
I totally agree with you that the regime is becoming more radical, because the US does not support the Iranian opposition which emboldens the regime. The regime is trying to survive for even one more day and clenches to anything to help its survival. Whether it be to suppress more or work faster on its nukes or carry out more terrorist activities in neighboring countries.
As we move on you can see that as the days go on, they get more radicalized, in and out of Iran.
