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Sohrab Ahmari, NYPost: Here’s who’s likely to lead Iran if the ayatollah is deposed
The measure of a successful Iranian dynasty has always been simple: For 2 ¹/₂ millennia, Iranians have judged their kings good if the kings managed to keep good order. Siyasat, the Persian word for politics, originally meant simply this.
By that yardstick, the current clerical “dynasty” has failed miserably.
Witness the latest wave of popular unrest engulfing the Islamic Republic. What began Friday as a protest against fuel-subsidy cuts ignited into a full-blown uprising. Cries of “Death to dictator!” rang out from the streets, as did slogans decrying the Islamist regime’s foreign interventions (“Not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life only for Iran!”). Gas stations were burned, and video footage from the provinces suggested some local authorities had lost control.
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WNU Editor: There is only one person in Iran that has a lot of public support and who would be accepted by the mullahs in Iran, and that is Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani.
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