Iran’s Violent Protests a Powder Keg for Regime – Where’s Biden?

ANALYSIS – The reactionary Islamist regime ruling Iran is facing some of the worst protests in its 40-year history. 

The violent unrest, initially sparked by the Iranian police killing of Jina Mahsa Amini, in mid-September, for not properly wearing her headscarf, has spread over the last two months across the entire country and could threaten the regime's survival.

Amini was from Iran's Kurdish region.

One big question is – how much staying power do these protests have?

The other big question is – where is Joe Biden on this crisis?

As The Jerusalem Post reports:

It is hard to quantify the protests, but videos posted from Iran appear to show protests across the country and continued attacks on symbols of the regime. This includes recent videos of people chanting “death” the authorities, ransacking or firebombing government offices, burning the flags of Iran's various IRGC proxies; or attacking statues and other visible evidence of the regime.

For instance, images of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei are often seen on fire. Some of the protests have also taken place in smaller towns; showing that this is an awakening across the country and the regime doesn't have enough forces to deal with all the protests.

[Still] the crackdown continues. Live fire can be heard in some recent videos and some 15,000 people have been detained. While rumors that Iran wants to execute all the detainees have been exaggerated, the regime nevertheless looks to continue to detain people and will kill some of them.

Adding fuel to the fire, The Post continues:

Many voices who in the past use to advocate for some kind of understanding with the regime are now supportive of the protests. The regime seems to have gone one step too far. It is also making missteps in its arming of Russia with drones, which has angered the West…

So we are seeing a historical opportunity to pressure, neutralize or perhaps even topple Iran's repressive terrorist regime.

But where is Biden?

Well, to his credit, and despite his continued flawed obsession with renegotiating the failed nuke deal, Biden recently said the right thing.

As Fox News reported:

Joe Biden recently appeared to break from America's stance not to call for regime change in Iran when he said, “We're going to free Iran.”

However, as is now all too common, his advisors quickly backtracked on his remarks.

Fox continued:

His remarks to an audience in Los Angeles last Thursday were soon qualified by John Kirby, the National Security Council strategic communications coordinator, who noted that Biden was “expressing, again, our solidarity” with Iranian protesters and not outlining a new approach.

But this is absolutely the wrong thing to say and do. And surprisingly, Biden was right when he spoke.

As Fox notes:

A new report by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has called on Biden to go further in strengthening his support for the Iranian people.

“President Biden's apparent endorsement of regime change in Iran is welcome. But he can go further to support the Iranian people,” wrote Tzvi Kahn, a research fellow at FDD.

Kahn believes that U.S. reticence to call for regime change lies in the Biden administration's hopes of reviving Obama's 2015 nuclear deal with the country.

Kahn added that the White House has not been clear enough on whether negotiations regarding the JCPOA would resume should protests fade.

“To eliminate such ambiguity, President Biden should reject further talks and adopt a policy of maximum pressure on Iran,” he said.

This would be much like Donald Trump's ‘maximum pressure' Iran policy which helped bring the brutal regime to this current vulnerable state.

Biden needs to bring back the Trump approach and push for regime change in Iran. 

Or at least his puppeteers need to do this for him. ALD

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