Is Iranian regime, which represents Shia Islam, a secret friend of Israel and America?
It’s unlikely. The 1979 revolution was the most popular revolution in human history. It is still going on – indeed it could be said that Iran is the only significant theatre in the world at the present time where active historical change (as opposed to conservative absence of it) is happening. Certainly since black majority rule in South Africa. And the USA is hardly going to support that – even allowing for their legendary absence of foreign policy and singular inability to effectively analyse and interpret political economy. But having said that, read on, if you will … They have no sophisticated political theory because any such useful theory has as much chance of surviving in the US mind as a snowball on the surface of Venus. At the time of the start of the 1979 revolution, the USA’s first move was to engage the services of their proxy – Saddam Hussein – in order to attack it. With cataclysmic and genocidal but otherwise entirely inconsequential results. It seldom makes political
