By Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi
In the already-century-long, limitless mess of tribal and religious conflicts for exclusive power, it is almost impossible to believe that real changes in the Greater Middle East are even a realistic expectation. However, the global terroristic nature of a nuclearized Islamic Republic of Iran has blown up the status quo among the United States of America, Israel, most of the Arab League countries, the Russian Federation, and the People’s Republic of China. The coming weeks and even months will determine whether the war against Ruhollah Khomeini’s entrenched Mullahcracy will sink the region deeper into a hopeless chaos or whether the White House and Jerusalem, in alliance with all the like-minded governments, could start to build the foundation for a truly stable and peaceful Greater Middle East.
From its official coming into being on April 1, 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s chief objective has been the nuclear militarization of the Twelver Shi’a Islamic State as a foundation for prosecuting a chain of viciously ruthless expansionist wars against both the deniers of the “Imamate of the Twelve Imams” as well as the “unfaithful” – meaning non-Muslims – across the globe. Domestically, this political totalitarianism, concealed under the religious garb of the Twelver Shi’ism – Ithna Ashariyya -, has pursued Adolf Hitler’s dictum, according to which “the broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” Internationally, the violent enforcement of the preeminence of the Mosque and the infiltration of culture and education spheres throughout the world have also provided Khomenei and his followers with an upper hand across the global media network. The ubiquitous result of all this has been Tehran’s absurdly idiotic ambition of tyrannical reign over the entire world. Clearly, the most successful method to counter such an unhinged geostrategy must go beyond sympathetic collusion or the old-fashioned containment to include the complete military destruction of the Iranian Mullahcracy.
Yet, military campaigns by themselves to defang Khomenei’s un-Islamic global terrorism are not sufficient. Concomitantly, a successful global strategy must also include the building of an alliance with the secular forces within the Islamic Ummah to intellectually and ideologically eliminate political Islamism. This simultaneous ideological war against Khomenei’s fallacious hoax must inherently aim at the transparent illegitimacy of a self-appointed God-like absolute sovereign with an uncontrollable megalomaniac personality. That said, the underlying problem with Khomenei’s Mullahcracy has been that it lost itself in the vicious circle of fear, provoking unimaginable abuses of force, leading to terrorism and the threat of endless wars with nuclear weapons, never consummated ceasefires as well as peace treaties throughout the world. All this, coupled with the absence of democratic legitimacy, has resulted in the tyrannical abuse of power by forcing the Iranian people to submit to Khomenei’s absolutism.
Today, this cancerous formation is crashing by causing a wave of terror to rage through all neighboring states and beyond, preventing the Iranian nation from following out the path to liberation from Khomenei’s fanatical insanity. Therefore, in order to facilitate a genuine regime change, Iran needs a true legitimacy, capable of guaranteeing liberty and equality for all.
In this decisive time, the President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump, and the Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, jointly understood that their military victory in Iran would be of no value, but would merely be the beginning of endless wars, if the reconstruction of Iran is not accomplished. The Islamic Republic of Iran’s vicious tyranny and a stable as well as peaceful regional order in the Greater Middle East are impossible contradictions. Yet, to avoid the deadly trap of a political vacuum, President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu must find a clear path to normalization. This path could be personalized by Reza Pahlavi, who was officially named Crown Prince of Iran at the time of his father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s, coronation in 1967. Reza Pahlavi is the only person today whose monarchical government could be recognized as rightful and justified, because it is the constitutional continuation of a legitimate monarchy that was overthrown in 1979 by an illegitimate revolution. By this decision, the Iranian people will regain their respect for the most fundamental principle of a legitimate order, and the state of Iran will become a civilized society again.
In closing, one more act must be carried out in Iran without any delay. When Khomenei established his militarized Mullahcracy and created a political structure centered on “Velayat-e Faqih,” the rule by senior clerics as guardians of the Islamic community, he knew that illegitimate revolutions are extremely fragile. His answer was the creation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – an armed force loyal not to the Iranian nation, but to his revolution and himself. Over the decades, the IRGC has evolved into something far larger than a parallel military. They have become the Mullahcracy’s central pillar of survival. The IRGC commands elite ground forces, including the infamous “Quds Force,” controls the missile programs, runs intelligence networks, directs Iran’s global strategic network, and possesses economic and financial empires. Together with the Basij militia, they have been the most formidable enemies of secularization. To open up Iran to a new era characterized by domestic as well as international normalization, this militarized Mullahcracy must also be completely annihilated.
This great effort would mirror the late President Ronald W. Reagan’s strategy toward the Soviet Union, which he summed up succinctly in this phrase: “We win, they lose.” What he meant was the relentlessly aggressive countering of Soviet expansionism, the strengthening of the U.S. military, and the firm exploitation of the Soviet Union’s economic weaknesses, while viewing it as an “evil empire” destined to fall. Clearly, it is the responsibility of the entire international community to defeat the Iranian Mullahcracy by facilitating its absolute political, economic, military, and religious-ideological demise.