Maxine Grice

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RADICAL MEDIA STATEMENT ON IRAN WAR: 1) All war is undesirable and should only ever be a last resort. 2) Military strikes are undesirable but they are not the same thing as all out war. 3) All out World War III remains highly unlikely. 4) This ongoing conflict didn’t just start last night. The joint Israeli / US strikes on Iran, and Iran’s own strikes against regional Sunni Arab countries, will last a specified duration but it is difficult to conceive how they cause regime collapse inside Iran on their own. 5) Once these strikes subside, it is highly unlikely that the US or Israel will commit boots on the ground to bring about regime change inside Iran. 6) After these strikes are over, the people of Iran themselves will be responsible for removing the regime that rules over them, if they so desire. 7) The Iranian people may succeed if figures senior enough inside the Iranian military change sides and abandon Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameni. This happened to Asad inside Syria, and to Maduro inside Venezuela. This may already be the plan. 8) Without exercising this plan, the Iranian people are unlikely to succeed in changing their own regime. 9) War is diplomacy through other means. Peace is the absence of the practicality of war. These strikes will eventually subside. Peace will then either be achieved with a new power inside Iran, or an exhausted Iranian regime that accepts US terms. It is highly unlikely that there will be all out World War III. We await the opportunity for peace and reassert the need for a grand regional settlement for peace in the shape of renewed peace Accords, named after Cyrus be they, or Abraham. 10) Regardless, the Iranian regime is a sectarian Shi’a Islamist theocracy that was invented by Khomeini in 1979 using his theory of Vilayat al-Faqih (Guardianship of the jurists). Shi’a Islamism, as invented by Khomeini, has no legitimacy in traditional orthodox Shi’a religion, which prohibits ‘ruling in God’s name’ for all except the awaited Messiah (the missing 12th Imam in Shi’a doctrine). It was to circumvent this prohibition that Khomeini argued that the jurists could ‘guard’ the rule in God’s name on behalf of the awaited Messiah, until he arrives. Khomeini’s heresy is rejected by all orthodox Shi’a Muslims. It is good for humanity when theocracies fall.