SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Has anyone noticed anything? The Iranian people have stood firm for 50 years, facing the harshest and most brutal blockade humanity has ever known in the modern era.

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سامح عسكر

Translated from Arabic

Has anyone noticed anything?

The Iranian people have stood firm for 50 years, facing the harshest and most brutal blockade humanity has ever known in the modern era. Yet they have not destroyed their state or changed their political system; instead, they declare their loyalty to their leaders in the streets and at the ballot box..

Meanwhile, the American and European peoples couldn't last just 8 months of deprivation, hunger, and soaring prices, so they changed Trump's system, and are now rising up against their governments in France, Italy..and elsewhere..

You'll tell me it's democracy?

I'll tell you that Iran also has a democratic system where people can change their president, his party, and their parliament, and can also change their Supreme Leader through elections..

Also, democracy isn't a one-size-fits-all mold

In Iran, there are elections, and the president and parliament change, and people have a voice. There is also a broad framework that governs the choices, meaning fundamental differences between conservatives and reformists, but ultimately they are ruled by oligarchic forces made up of clerics and generals who have the final say..

Likewise, the West is exactly the same, except that the clerics in the West are the wealthy, business owners, and war and arms barons..

Democracy has no "ideal" model and no "wrong" model, because it essentially means people agreeing on a way to choose who governs them, and each people sees that way through its own culture and history.

The Iranians held firm because their elite is a mix of (intellectuals, clerics, technocrats, and military leaders) who managed to instill in them the idea of resistance, endurance, and not backing down, and to see that as a humanitarian mission before it is a religious one

The West did not hold firm because its elite is a mix of (the wealthy, business owners, war profiteers, and military leaders), and all of them instill a materialistic view of life, that money is everything. So naturally, when their money runs low, they feel fear and threatened, and thus their desperate need for change emerges..

That's the explanation, simply put

Iran has the ingredients to endure for 50 years because its leaders are thinkers and writers, mostly with advanced degrees and intellectual competence. But the West lacks these capabilities, never listens to its intellectual elite, and has completely surrendered to business owners and arms dealers. That is why 8 months are more than enough to change everything in the West, and that is what we are seeing now, and it will cast its shadow over the West's allies in Latin America..

Of course, I respect your opinions, although I meant to express the idea by comparing democracy in the two models, because the opposing view sanctifies the Western experience from this angle

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