Aimen Dean@AimenDean
“The Iranian regime poses no threat to the world.”
Honestly, every time I hear that sentence - usually from a politician or a very comfortable diplomat - I mentally put a big red X on their ability to understand geopolitics. Not disagreement. Disqualification.
Let’s walk through this slowly, for the well-meaning but dangerously naive.
In what world is it normal for a state to recruit 700,000 fighters from across Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan… arm them, train them, and deploy them as transnational militias outside the authority of their own countries?
In what world is it normal to effectively hijack the political, economic, and military decision-making of a neighboring state like Iraq, while simultaneously fueling civil wars in Syria and Yemen that have left millions dead and tens of millions displaced?
In what world is it normal that half of a country’s armed forces - namely the IRGC - is designated as a terrorist organization by dozens of countries… and yet continues to operate, fund, arm, and expand?
And here’s my favorite.
In what world is it normal for a regime to transfer ballistic missiles (multi-warhead systems with ranges exceeding 2,500 km) to a terrorist non-state actors like the Houthis?
Let me simplify that.
Sovereign-level strategic weapons… handed to narco terror militias.
Militias that traffic in narcotics, humans and chaos.
And somehow, we’re told this is… not a threat?
Even NATO countries like Germany or Italy don’t field that kind of range in their arsenals. But a militia in Yemen does?
Perfectly normal. Nothing to see here.
And all of this is happening in a region that holds roughly 60% of global oil and gas reserves, and controls the world’s most critical maritime choke points - Strait of Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, and the Suez Canal.
So let me ask the obvious question.
If this is not a threat… what exactly qualifies? Explain it to me like am a 5 year old!!
Do we wait until global energy flows collapse? Until maritime trade is strangled? Until missiles start landing beyond the region?
At what point do we graduate from “not a threat” to “perhaps mildly concerning”?
Because from where I’m sitting, the regime isn’t preparing to become a threat.
It already is one.
Oh, I forgot .. All of the above is happening while the same terror sponsoring regime is seeking nuclear weapons and in actual control of 460 kg of highly enriched uranium enough for 11 nuclear bombs!!🤦🏻♂️
