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REGIME CHANGE IS THE BEST OPTION – Ken’s Thought of The Week
By Threat Analyst Ken Abramowitz, author of “The Multifront War”
Editor: Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, President, American Center for Democracy (ACD)
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The US and Iran have been at war for 47 years, since the Shiite Islamic Revolution forces, led by Ayatollah Khomeini, overthrew King Pahlavi in 1979 and established the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). Since then, Iran’s rallying cry has consistently called for “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” The IRI was founded on “twelver” ideology, which insists that chaos in the world will cause the resurrection of the hidden 12th Imam or Mahdi (messiah) who will return to the world to help the Muslims defeat all the infidels (Christians, Jews, Hindus, and others).
Although westerners might consider the IRI a death cult, the faithful believe the Mahdi will appear at the End of Times to rid the world of evil and injustice, establishing a just social order under Islam. Such radical death cult ideology is rejected by all Western democracies and other non-Islamic nations.
If America were to proceed with negotiations with IRI, it would have to insist on the following points:
1) Iran will no longer fund or train any proxies anywhere.
2) Iran will destroy its three terrorist organizations with their millions of operatives spanning physical terrorism, narco-terrorism, and cultural terrorism globally.
3) Iran must end propagating cultural terror by terminating all funding worldwide.
4) Iran must permanently close all missile and drone production.
5) Iran must destroy all its nuclear facilities and hand over all of the enriched uranium they possess.
6) Iran’s air force, air defense systems, and naval forces should be downgraded and limited.
7) Iran cannot maintain control over the Strait of Hormuz (Trump).
8) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), it’s Quds Force, and the Basij must be dispersed.
9) The remaining members of the Ayatollahs’ Regime should be put on Nuremburg-like trials in Tehran or in Qom.
10) Iran should no longer be identified as the Islamic Revolutionary Republic of Iran, but simply the Republic of Iran.
Since the likelihood of the IRI accepting such conditions is doubtful, we foresee three eventualities:
1) The US and Israel continue fighting the IRI for at least 30 more days, if necessary, thus facilitating the possibility of a Regime Change.
2) After these additional 30 days, America could declare victory and leave
Israel with the task of completing the War.
3) If after 30 more days of heavy bombing the IRI regime does not fall, America and Israel will patrol the skies and the surrounding seas to ensure no supplies get into the country, preventing its rearmament and re-building its offensive weapons capabilities.
Led by America and Israel, western democracies now find themselves on the cusp of victory. But, will we insist , as we did in WW2, on unconditional surrender? Or will we seek an early termination of the war, without Regime Change? No one knows. Alas, we worry the choice could be option 2 or 3.
