The Iranian system is not really a theocracy in the pure sense. It’s more like a military state built around the IRGC, with a theocratic layer on top that provides legitimacy and ideology. If it were truly just a theocracy like the Taliban, it wouldn’t be able to make ballistic missiles or nuclear fissile material that is enriched and can be put on a warhead and assembled in a matter of days and turned into a nuclear weapon. The religious element functions more as a tool. It helps them recruit useful idiots who are willing to become proxies and are willing to fight and die for them. Iran today is doing what the Achaemenids did 2500 years ago, interchange "proxy" for "satrapy" and it's the same playbook. Iran can use them to project power and become a regional hegemon. That's the reason they are working so hard to convert people and latin America and why Hezbollah has persence there they even spent a ton of money to convert Japanese which failed but it proves that they are smart and can last another 47 years without caring about religion cause ultimately it is like Pakistan where the military controls everything and uses religion as a tool.
>>530336697>Why did Iran not fall?These things take time.
>>530336697probably because the people in charge of iran aren't dumb whores waving lion flags but hairy guys with unibrows like everyone else in that region, why would they have a problem with religion? any internal tension there is probably because the guys are lying to their own women
>>530337207look at Khamenei's twitter, they're just professional bullshitters
>>530337207What's funny to me is the LARP coming out of the fucking Iranian diaspora. These people wave Sassanian Flags, talk about 2500 years of history while cheering on for a degenerate secular liberal "crown prince" who hasn't worked a single day in his life (real fact). They are ready to give the middle east up to Israel while the IRGC is fighting tooth and nail to become the regional hegemon. Which of these two sides are acting more in the spirit of Cyrus?
>>530336697because no one (besides the Kurds) wants to ally with the Great Satan and start internal turmoil. And even the Kurds aren't retarded enough to try it this time around. So, Iran is just going to sit there, Kikes are going to become even more panicked and basically they'll just have to fuck off to the Americas, Australia, and wherever else they have colonies set up.
>>530336697They activated the decentralization plans they established in case they were nuked upon the Ayatollah's death.They're coordinating the way geese do. No central authority, just a flow. >>530337396pic related
>>530337549I'm really interested in the history behind the IRGC, how it functions and how it has been set up. Looking from the outside it seems waterproof almost, like the Iranians have thought of every single contingency. Where can I learn more about it?
>>530337731>Looking from the outside it seems waterproof almostIs that why Israel filled it with sleeper cells?
>>530338192>Is that why Israel filled it with sleeper cells?And what has that accomplished? Israel has tried to topple Iran for 30 years, zero progress on that front. The IRGC is today more entrenched and decentralized than it has ever been.
>>530338454>And what has that accomplished?Decapitated leaders >Israel has tried to topple Iran for 30 yearsWhat if I told you that Israel created the revolution?>zero progress on that frontThey said the same in gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria.
>>530338686>Decapitated leadersmute point>What if I told you that Israel created the revolution?The revolution was a grassroots popular uprising>They said the same in gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria.Totally different situation from Iran as described in the OP.
>>530338799>mute pointWhat's that supposed to mean?>The revolution was a grassroots popular uprisingNo it wasn't. It was funded by Israel to take out the Shah because he was a bigger ally of the West. That would have made Israel second best ally. The Americans promised the Shah protection but the jews persuaded the government to abandon him and let the revolution take over.>Totally different situation from Iran as described in the OP.Not how I see it. Islam is the communism of the Middle East. The jews use it to control the region. They know that Islam is easy to install and easy to remove.
>why does nation with no working government still have a governmentlol
