Yes. While people are distracted……..
Rubin, the author of Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes, said “The key to regime change in Iran is the defeat of the Revolutionary Guards. Here, the United States has a long way to go. Because while we talk about Iranian politics on a spectrum ranging from hardline to reform, the truth is we don't know about the factional breakdown within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”
According to Rubin, there is “lots” for the US and Europe to do for struggling Iranian democrats.
“How ironic it is that European Greens and US Democrats support worker’s rights everywhere but Iran, where they ignore the Islamic Republic's few independent trade unions," Rubin said.
“And what a waste of money it is that the Central Intelligence Agency will trace the finances of Iranian leaders, but will never expose the massive Swiss bank accounts that their leaders have siphoned of. And while the Iranian regime spends hundreds of millions trying to prevent a free internet, for a fraction of that price, the United States could help Iranian bypass firewalls with technologies like UltraSurf which simply need server capacity to be more effective,” he added.
The character of Iranian revolutionary ideology cannot tolerate active opponents of Western-style freedoms. In a post-Iran nuclear agreement world, the plight of Iranians seeking a liberal social order will not disappear. The pressing questions are: Will the West aid democratic opponents of the regime of the mullahs and how will the West react to the next Iranian democratic upheaval?
Benjamin Weinthal reports on European affairs for The Jerusalem Post, and is a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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