Are the Mullahs Desperate?

With the mullahs in Iran staging another hostage incident, you have to wonder if it is deja vue all over again. 

Embarrassing as it is for the Brits, maybe that’s all the Iranian mullahs know how to do: Stage another hostage crisis.

That’s what Austin Bay thinks. 

But this latest hostage-taking incident smacks of desperation, not revolutionary fervor.
Late spring 2007 finds the Iranian "revolutionary government" facing an extraordinary range of internal and external problems.

 There are several, shall we say, insurgencies going on inside Iran.  (Could the bumbling Bush have anything to do with that?)

But the mullahs have an even bigger problem.

The mullah’s core problem is the Iranian people. Under-30 Iranians have had it with the mullahs’ failed revolution.

According to RMC Chappie Eric Voegelin that is important.  A legitimate government is not a government that wins elections.  It is a government that is accepted by its people as legitimate.

Then there is the humiliation of the Arabs next door in Iraq making halting progress towards democracy.  If there is one thing your average Iranian knows, it is that he is superior to the Arabs.

The problem with all these thug regimes built upon natural resource sales is that they aren’t learning how to make it in the real world of products and services, exchange and trust.

Sooner or later it catches up with you.  Ask the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.