When an outside power wants to
penetrate an environment, it needs to win hearts and mind in that environment. Unless
it does so, it will be confronted by the society and won't be allowed in. To
proceed with its’ ambitions, the outside power needs to undo this barrier; i.e.
society itself. The state, which is the protector of society, has to stop
functioning.
To nip any attempt by society to
bounce back in the bud, all influential, outspoken, and cerebral figures in
that society have to be eliminated.
This series of talks attempt to
describe the Persian character, in an effort to understand Persian incentives
and designs on neighbouring societies in the hinterland. In doing so, we will
be trying to comprehend a phenomenon, rather than daily, weekly or monthly news
reports or political events.
Analysis of political events requires
journalistic material, field data, or statistics. Understanding a phenomenon
requires knowledge of historical patterns.
What is unfolding in the Arab region
today is a reoccurrence of chapters from its past. The title of the unfolding
story is “the collapse of the state and society.”
People who have lost their livelihoods,
security, wealth, health, and life opportunities are not exercised by questions
of nationalism, religion, sect, race, or colour. They are, however, alarmed and
troubled by the nature of their society.
The struggle is between two very
different types of powers. It is between two regimes, one, which derives its
viability from maintaining a stable society, composed of the three sectors: the
State, the private sector and the charitable sector; a society of equal
opportunities. The Persian regime cannot hope to achieve this and win the
hearts and minds of the people in the region because its’ own interpretation of
Islam clashes so violently with that of other societies
in the region.
The other order is one which
maintains its’ grip by turning minorities into a tool to undo the very fabric
of society, spreading hatred and animosity in the process.
The breach of human rights inside
Iran of Arabs, Kurds, Balouchis, which has over spilled into the region, is
only a natural outcome of this phenomena.
It is only natural that reason, rational
thinking, facts and dialogue are the staunchest enemies of the latter order.
Appeals and criticism does not work
with this type of regime, however, intellectual quarantine and isolation can.
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