Iran’s
revolutionary leaders appears bent on one course of action: Military
confrontations! Where they are not combative enough, they are sponsoring
rebellious groups, terrorists, especially the Middle East; it is doubtful if
their television and radio stations broadcast any other message other than pouring
invectives on Donald Trump or issuing annihilation threats to Israel. The gulf channel has lately been added to
their growing point of recalcitrance. The government of Iran ought to do more on
provision of social amenities, infrastructure, but the Ali Khameni group would
only focus on assembling nuclear arsenals and only that. The world is governed by laws but the
Iranians resent this and seem to be more at home with crude tactics, guerilla
warfare and testing missiles. This is
not the way to give the upcoming generation of Iranians a future to look up
to. They are in Syria, Lebanon and in
Palestine struggling to equip Hama’s-- strangely quiet these days-- and Hezbollah
who now boost of over 150,000 rockets aimed at Israel to show for it.
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