Great analysis....I would like to know in your view as to what is irans end game in the nuclear domaine....I agree that nuclear has always been the excuse and the enemy is after a bigger objectives in iran ...if the destruction of iran is the ultimate goal then why iran is playing in their field .
Glad you enjoyed. As for your question, pardon me for not being entirely certain to have grasped what you meant. If by playing in their field you mean to ask why Iran has even engaged in any sort of negotiation on its nuclear program in the first place, then I believe my previous comment implicitly contained the response already: although the nuclear issue in itself isn't the enemy's final goal, they can still use it as a pretext to pose economic and other challenges to Iran (via sanctions etc), hence Iran must neutralize these challenges.
Now as concerns the principle of nuclear negotiations per se, and considering that the opposite side has managed to convince various actors with their baseless accusations against Iran, or provided other players as dishonest as themselves with a hollow pretext to brandish against Iran, revolutionary and patriotic elements of the IR needed to unmask the true intentions of the west both with domestic and international audiences, in order to be able to reject demands and pressures (both internal and external ones) for renewed negotiations.
I believe in the coming years, the way forward will be severalfold (since the nuclear issue is unseparable from a variety of external and domestic factors):
1) No more negotiations. At most, Iran might enter some formal rounds of negotiations simply for the sake of pretending to be interested in a compromise, but no deal shall be reached i. e. no meaningful concessions shall be made.
2) Build a resistance economy relying on domestic resources, while external trade will transit on the black market or use official channels where possible, specially with geopolitical rivals of the US and emerging powers (from Russia and China to Venezuela and Cuba, plus countries like South Africa, some East Asian nations etc) in addition to Iran's own neighbours (in effect it will be extremely difficult for the US to control covert means of cross-border trade, where currency and goods can be carried by columns of simple individuals etc). Settle for bilateral trade in local currencies or barter trade.
3) Further move away from oil dependence. In particular, this will be achieved through the introduction of a comprehensive and working system of tax collection.
4) Re-expand the welfare state and social handouts to the economically vulnerable segments of the population, following the Rohani administration's shameful cutbacks. This will dampen and ultimately neutralize risks of domestic instability stemming from the economic impact of sanctions.
5) Mercilessly but intelligently root out the prevailing economic and financial corruption among certain elites. It will be an arduous long term process, which has been kickstarted by hajj Raisi. Promote popular support and participation in this effort, advertize it massively in the media.
6) Strike hard at subversive domestic elements, from western-apologetic and globalist liberals to ethno-separatists, British turbans (Shirazi clan, Hojjatieh akhbaris) and salafo-taymiyist takfiris, Haifan Baha'i underground networks, covert agents of international freemasonry, MKO and shahi agents etc.
Here, combined efforts on the operational (police and intelligence) and informational (soft and cultural war) levels, as well as a measure of positive social engineering will be key. For example, in the battle against the ethno-separatist subversion, encourage mixed mariages between members of different linguistic groups of Iran, promote internal economic migration between Iranian provinces; through modern media campaigns, advertisements, feature films, documentaries, video games, strongly highlight the fact that in reality over 50% of Iranians are of mixed linguistic backgrounds and that therefore, Iranian citizens cannot be separated and crammed into narrow "ethnic" categories. In parallel, crack down on ethno-separatist elements, wherever they might spread their poison, from Trazktor-Sazi hooligans to members of Majles, NGO workers, militants and journalists.
As another example, in the resistance against globalist ideology, double down on public and private education efforts focusing on the virtues of Iranian history, religion, culture, civilization and identity (including when compared to western and global decadence).
7) Shills, saboteurs and agents of influence (nofoozis) associated with the aforementioned currents and organizations, whom infiltrated the state apparatus of the IR must be rooted out progressively. Likewise, spies recruited from amongst the 'khodis' with no previous contrarian affiliation must be identified and neutralized.
8) After the Rohani administration reduced budgets and even shut down some of Iran's foreign-language public broadcasters, reinvigorate and expand those services.
9) Encourage natality through adequate monetary and other types of incentives for families with more than two children, in order to avert the existentially threatening demographic catastrophe that is looming on the horizon. In this manner, Saudi efforts to socially engineer a sudden upwards trend in the relative size of taymiyist takfiri communities in Iran will be foiled as well.
Decisively counter the enemy's efforts to uproot the traditional nuclear family and to spread sexual perversions.
Hammer the illegal abortion mafia, as well as other criminals in the medical professions who harbor globalist persuasions and wish to open up Iran to Big Pharma.
10) Explain to people who might not adhere to the IR's official ideology (including agnostics and atheists), but who still believe in the necessity to implement natural law for a society to thrive and function properly, that the IR remains the best option at their disposal (specially when considering the rival western-led model).
11) Last but by far not least, set up a national internet system, completely disconnecting the bulk of Iranians from "social media" and other anti-Iranian websites controlled by global oligarchs or anti-IR oppositionists, as well as from the oceans of perversion and sickness the internet is largely composed of.
Evidently, there will be huge hurdles along the way and the enemy (whether foreign or domestic) will not sit still and allow this type of a program to be carried out without trying everything in its power to prevent it. However I do believe these policies, if conducted with success, will shield Iran from the major threats she's faced with.
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