Given:
99% of the Iranian population is Islamic.
93% of those are Shiite, Twelvers like the Mullah's.
Twelvers believe they are the chosen generation, jump-starting end time events and thus making way for the advent of the Mahdi and Isa by striking blows against Israel and the Great Satan, the USA.
1953, the USA and MI6 launched a covert operation to overthrow the sitting Prime Minister and install Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The concern was the growing influence of the Soviet Union over the sitting Regime and their intent to move oil to a state run asset.
1979, the Iranian Revolution, a popular action, was to overthrow the Shah Monarchy and by popular demand, to establish an Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Khomeini. During the Revolution, rioters sacked the US Embassy in Tehran, November 4th 1979 and took 66 US Citizens, holding them until January 20th 1981.
Sitting Democrat President Jimmy Carter ordered the Marine Corps Embassy guard to stand down and not resist. He ordered one catastrophically failed attempt to rescue those hostages on April 25, 1980. Republican Candidate Ronald Reagan threatened the Theocratic Regime, that if they failed to release the hostages he would order a Military strike on January 21st 1981, one day after being sworn in, should he win the election.
Democrats cry foul.
The hostages are released January 20th 1979.
The point being, what we are witnessing today is a grand case of buyers remorse. And we should not expect the Islamic, Shiite, Twelver population to suddenly become US allies or to change from their ideologically driven desire to see the "Great Satan" destroyed.
Any quenching of the ideological fire should be expected to be short lived.
Semper Fi;
John Bernard
