Exonerating the Iranian regime. Why? | Eliza Le Bon

 

Click above for the X post by Elica Le Bon, Iranian-American activist 

"Why Are Liberals Against Liberation?" | Elica Le Bon

 

Elica Le Bon is an Iranian-born, American lawyer and activist for the people of Iran. Which is to say: ANTI the IRGC and PRO the strikes against it by Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion.

Her own family, mother, aunt, uncle, were all imprisoned by the IRGC regime in 1979. Her uncle was tortured and killed. Mother, aunt and cousin all made it to the U.K. where her father was, and where Elica grew up. 

I've posted her a number of times over the years. She's smart, quick, eloquent. 

On the outcomes of the current war: she sees either (hopes, really):

• Complete surrender by IRGC, or 
• Severe degrading of the IRGC such that they can't threaten the region or its own people. 

Anything else and it's going to be a rejuvenated IRGC. Even more radical. 

The people of Iran (Persian, Zoroastrian) are very different from the regime (Arabs and Muslim). Most Iranians -- 82% -- hate the regime, she says, quoting a poll by the Dutch non-partisan pollsters Gamaan. They are seen as the invaders, colonisers and despots. I agree with all of that. 

(Gamaan did a poll I quoted before, on "Iranian Attitudes to Religion", showing Shia Muslims are just 32% of the population. Atheist, Agnostic or None are 37%)

She explains the motivations behind IRGC and the Mullahs' hatred of Israel, the eschatology of their world view. And the spread of the Marxist oppressor/oppressed world view amongst the Left. 

Elica Le Bon is one of the many gorgeous Iranian women activists. 

"What Most People Get Wrong About Iran" | Elica Le Bon

 Elica Le Bon, is an Iranian activist, lawyer and journalist. She speaks so well and eloquently. Listen to her on the Iranian questions, talking to Dan Senor of the Call Me Back podcast:

• Why the Iranian people and the regime are fundamentally different 

• How the 1979 Islamic Revolution reshaped a 7,000-year-old civilization 

• Why the regime places Israel at the center of its ideology 

• How the regime exports its revolution across the Middle East 

• Why Western narratives often misunderstand the Iranian people

“Iranian women activists are so beautiful”

The “Ted-Green alliance”: Leftists smooch Jihadis

Elica le Bon, an Iranian-American activist explains it well.

I remember when the leftists allied with Khomnei Islamist in 1979. And were promptly slaughtered when the Ayatollah took power. 

I didn’t get it then. And I didn’t get it when I was in China in the late 1970s, when China’s Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution was still on. 

But now I get it. And have done for some years. But many still don’t. 

For them, Elica does good service. 

https://youtu.be/IkUi88qJH5U?si=w7zgAY6bWAClTCzx

Iranian women activists are so beautiful

Princess Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari. Wife of the Shah or Iran

 

Tarlan Parvaneh, Iranian actress and women's rights activist

Claudia Lynx. American-Iranian. "Humanitarian". 

Shermine Sharivar.  German-Iranian model and peace activist

Elica Le Bon. American-Iranian. Critic of the clerics

Masih Alinejad. American-Iranian, fighter for women's rights in Iran

Lily Moo, aka Elaaheh Jamali, British-Iranian human rights activist

Nazanin Boniadi. British-Iranian,
actress and activist against Iran regime

Elina Shirazi. American-Iranian journalist and
activist against the Iranian regime

Darya Safai. Belgian-Iranian, fights for women's rights in Iran.

Moone Rahini, talking to Erin Molan

Elnaaz Norouzi, Iranian-German actress

Goldie Ghamari talking to Danica De Georgio

Changing one's mind on Israel

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I too was pro-Palestine. When I was at uni. And it felt good. I still remember that feeling. Virtuous. 

Then I changed my mind. As I learned more about Palestine, the Arabs, the Muslims, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Jew, Israel, Middle East history and current affairs....

I'm like Elica Le Bon the young Iranian woman, above. Changed. And above, talking to Winston Marshall, wondering why others too don't change. I guess there's too much of a rush in feeling that virtue. You don't really want to know more, for fear of shaking the virtue. 

There's plenty of willfully ignorant, studiously ignorant, lazily ignorant out there. Not to mention the peer pressure, when you're a student, that keeps you in line.  

Elica speaks of 1979 when the Shah was overthown by Ayatollah Komenei. I remember it well. The Left in Iran were strong supporters of the Ayatollah. The first thing he did was to get his sidekick, Al-Baghdadi to round them up and execute them. Some 30,000 in all. Yet the Left in the west would still rather this ragtag gang of bearded medieval ghouls run the country, than the Shah, who had been modernising Iran. Giving women equality. 

I was there in Iran in 1974, while the Shah was still in power. It felt like a pretty cool place. With cool people. Went trail bike riding in the desert with the young Iranian friends of our friends in Isfahan. Cool stuff. Today the people are still cool. But they're repressed. As we know, and as Elica tells us. The chance we had to support the young Green movement against the regime, was nixed by the brave Obama. Hmm....