Donald Trump calls Reza Pahlavi "the Loser Prince", but Pahlavi briefs that Trump had meant him when he had boasted of controlling the Strait of Hormuz jointly with "whoever the next ayatollah is". Bless.
A fatwa ordering support for Iran has been issued by Grand Mufti Sheikh Sadiq al-Ghariani, who was installed by David Cameron and an ungrateful Nicolas Sarkozy when they delivered Libya to the people who ungratefully went on to perpetrate the Manchester Arena attack.
As their first act in the new Libya was to legalise polygamy since there could be no law contrary to the Quran, so the Western-installed regime in the new Syria is trying to ban alcohol, initially by restricting its sale to Christian areas the more to make them targets for terrorist attack. President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is otherwise Abu Mohammad al-Julani in the manner of "Tommy Robinson", is a sometime second-in-command both of Al-Qaeda and of the so-called Islamic State.
But at least the expressions of outrage on the streets of Damascus constitute any kind of popular uprising. There has been no such thing in Iran. Nor in Cuba, which mirrors Iran in being blockaded on the orders of well-connected "exiles" in the United States. The Cuban economic model can be held up as a failure because Trump has cut off its oil supply. Well, Trump has now cut off a lot of countries' oil supplies. What will the effects of that prove?
It is never about political rights in the narrower sense. There has been no regime change in Venezuela. There looks unlikely to be any in Iran. We are at war, and Britain has been in this war from the start, for one of the two most repressive regimes in the world, with only North Korea equalling Saudi Arabia, and for several more that are scarcely any better. And look up the relations between Nick Candy, Treasurer of Reform UK, and the Nicaragua of Rosario Murillo and Daniel Ortega, winner of the 2009 Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights.
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