SocraticGadfly: Iran 2009 and Hitlerian Germany

June 24, 2009

Iran 2009 and Hitlerian Germany

If Himmler, Goering and Goebbels started shooting each other …

Would we intervene?

Well, per my previous blogging noting Mir Mousavi was 1983’s Butcher of Beirut, the man who within the last week, called for a “reformation” for the Islamic Republic of Iran and saluted the spirit of Ayatollah Khoumeni, and Fareed Zakaria explaining to us just how diffused (to some degree) the locus of political power is in Iran besides Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, really, that’s where we’re at.

Khamenei is, in essence, the embalmed corpse of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khoumeni, stuffed with myrrh and frankincense but still putrid, and growing more putrid by the day now that he has been forcibly exposed to sunlight inside his authoritarian crypt.

Within the comparisons?

Ali Akbar Rafsanjani might be the Rudolf Hess who never went insane, or else the Joseph Goebbels of propaganda for both himself and Mir Mousavi, Mahmood Ahmadinejad the clownish Hermann Goering, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani a lightweight version of the already lightweight Albert Speer, and Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri a quietist, unassassinated Reinhard Heydrich. Who matches the dimwitted former chicken farmer Himmler, I’m not sure. Rafsanjani, to the degree he is rich, possibly corrupt and other things, might have a touch of Joachim Ribbentrop in him. (What’s Farsi for a pseudo-“von”?)

And Mousavi? Maybe the Butcher of Beirut, so-called, has changed his spots. Or maybe he is a proto-quasi-Nazi; Kurt von Schleicher comes to mind.

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