The behavior of Iran's religious government is incomprehensible to many. For example, why isn’t the…
By Hamid Enayat
The behavior of Iran’s religious government is incomprehensible to many. For example, why isn’t the Iranian regime trying to reach a nuclear deal? And why doesn’t it seize the moment and step up sales of Iranian oil and gas when energy-hungry Europe is seeking to replace Russian oil and gas due to the latter’s invasion of Ukraine? In the background, the nation is in upheaval as its population explodes with extreme poverty and unemployment, and its loss of capital and the “brain drain” of educated Iranians continues unabated.
The mullahs’ regime has allocated billions of dollars to fund its war agenda in the Middle East while the majority of Iranians live in poverty. As regime officials have admitted, if the regime fails to wage wars outside Iran, it will have to fight for its survival inside the country.
Iran’s current foreign minister calls the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) a “hero,” despite its terrible history of torturing and killing the citizenry. Inexplicably, all the Iranian regime’s efforts in the Vienna talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal are aimed at removing IRGC from the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist groups.
