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Quote of the Day.\u00a0 \u201cIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told Iranians that regime change was looming. \u201cWhen Iran is finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think \u2014 everything will be different,\u201d Netanyahu said in a video statement addressed to Iranians, in which he lambasted the “fanatic theocrats” who rule the country. \u201cOur two ancient peoples, the Jewish people and the Persian people, will finally be at peace. Our two countries, Israel and Iran, will be at peace,\u201d he added. \u2026 \u201cThere are tens of millions of decent and good people with thousands of years of history behind them, and a brilliant future ahead of them. Don\u2019t let a small group of fanatic theocrats crush your hopes and dreams. You deserve better. Your children deserve better. The entire world deserves better,\u201d Netanyahu said. \u201cThe people of Iran should know, Israel stands with you. May we together know a future of prosperity and peace,\u201d he said.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cNetanyahu: Iran regime change will come a \u2018lot sooner than people think\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 9-30-24.\u00a0 So, will act as a normal country in response?\u00a0 Or as a revolutionary country?<\/p>\n

John Sawers, former MI6 chief and UK ambassador to the UN, has his finger on one thing here, that Israel is finally standing up to terror in a way that we all should.\u00a0 True, the PM and the IDF and Mossad sense that they have the technical ability to act now, especially due to their missile shield providing much cover.\u00a0 But Sawers misses in his IR balance of power analysis, and what we should realize regarding Iran\u2019s decisions, is that this is not just a sterile laboratory of a world in which balances and rebalances occur.\u00a0 The point here is that Iran, Syria, and others have used terror as a tool of statecraft, and long-term that is immoral and cannot win.\u00a0 Eventually someone says enough is enough and they fight back.\u00a0 Other states, unwilling to fight with personnel, or perhaps only contribute financial or other support, are here quietly approving of what Israel is doing to fight back against the Regime because they know that since 1979 Iran has needed someone(s) to hold back its revolutionary push by the two Ayatollahs.\u00a0 See \u201cMiddle East\u2019s power scales tip as Israel senses Iran\u2019s weakness,\u201d<\/a> John Sawers, Financial Times, 9-30-24.\u00a0 Michael Oren is making this same point, that the U.S. has the opportunity to remake the world, to push back on Iran.\u00a0 (will any reformers in Iran see this chance to make a better future for their country?)\u00a0 See “Michael Oren: This is an amazing opportunity to change the Middle East,”<\/a> Fox, 9-30-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quote of the Day.\u00a0 \u201cIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told Iranians that regime change was looming. \u201cWhen Iran is finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think \u2014 everything will be different,\u201d Netanyahu said in a video statement addressed to Iranians, in which he lambasted the “fanatic theocrats” … <\/p>\n

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