It is not frustrating for the regime. What is this assumption based on? Why do I keep hearing and reading it? What is so frustrating about spending money on guarding your reign? Every dictatorship does it and never gets tired of it. If the regime had a finite source of cash, yeah maybe then we could claim they are running out of money. Please wake up and smell the coffee. They have unlimited funds in the form of $100+ dollar oil. They can sell it for half that price and safeguard their power for decades to come.
In harfa bara fati tonboon nemisheh
Soroush jAn,
You are dismissing plenty of obvious facts on the ground or I must say what Iranians have achieved so far which is nothing less than impressive with minimum bloodshed and destruction. I will bring some of them to your attention and see if we can agree with them.
For decades regime has done its best to blame its own incompetency, mismanagement and wrongdoings on colonial powers of past, Zionism and imperial power of US which you know very well has lost that card, the cat is out of the bag and no one gives a hoot about their lies anymore , meaning they must take the consequences of all their idiotic policies right on the face instead of blaming them on foreign transgression of the past. It does not work anymore.
Generation gap is also a massive detriment to their intentions, every time they wanted to cling to legitimacy just like children all fundamentalists and some moderate conservatives alike would just run and take refuge under the skirt of mama Khomeini called “khatt e emam, dowraan e talaae’I emam, farmoodeh yeh emam” and so on. Iranian youth does not remember him and seems they give a hoot about him either. They have realized that mysterious and antiquated khatt e emam has never been and will never be able to bring them civil liberty, economic dignity and/or justice and they don’t associate the lack of aforementioned Rights with colonial powers of past or US/Israel of today but with barbaric republic itself.
Regime had managed to rule by reeking fear, savagery and intimidation to a point where Shaheed Omid Rezal Mir Syafi (?) was murdered in Evin who was incarcerated for insulting Kakananehei, nowadays “marg bar Khamenei” is a norm. Regime has lost that tool as well. Iranians are not afraid of regime no more.
Sareto nemikhaam dard byaaram, all evidences have been pointing twd this notion that the days of the regime were numbered but the slightest doubt which I might had was wiped out of my mind when I saw the old goat Rafi, the man who was an instrumental adhesive in keeping this regime together decided to abandon the ship b/c he knows it is just about to capsize for good.
Considering Iranian struggle for freedom is not a sprint and is more like an endurance running I must say they have done a lot in 2 short years which are nothing but paralyzing nightmares to the regime.
