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Governance by Abuse Knows No Limitation to Repression of Rights - No Law and Order - Fiats Notwithstanding

Reader comment on item: A Call for American Boldness in Iran
in response to reader comment: Maryam Rajavi - Iran's Opposition?

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Oct 12, 2022 at 18:38

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Persia is destined for rule as monarchy.
This observer would tend to agree with Dr, Pipes in that while replacing the mullah led totalitarian regime is an alternative worth considering, seeking a replacement that models that like the American form of governance may not be necessarily what wold work for a people that need strong reliable leadership that serves the purpose of leading a nation to freedom of expression while observing the rule of law and order.
Having known many ex-pat Iranian/Persian/Turkic emigrees over the years, having freedom to be expressive of who they are did not necessarily translate to understanding how freedom of rights in America really worked when so many in America fight the Constitution that gave them that freedom. Their reasoning was hard to explain. They understood freedom, not the rebellion that seeks to take it away. That's how the current Islamic Regime is viewed: that revolution did not produce freedom from the Shah, only a Quranic replacement of repressing individual expressions with authoritarian abuse.

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