Iran
Make Iran Great again
Iran fell to the tyranny of often associated with Caliphates an the Islamic States. This happened because of practices that introduced into their nation in the 1920's which are opposed to the precepts and principles found within in the Sacred Scripture and the wisdom of the ancients philosophers and historians.
The whole world is no under a similar strong delusion and none will return to greatness until the people began to see the error of Balaam.
The Iranian people must choose to return to righteousness. If they desire liberty they must promote personal liberty and responsibility and abandon the reward of unrighteousness.
That means the most rely on fervent charity only for all their Social welfare and abandon the ways of "legal charity" because they are Covetous practices where "people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." Polybius 150 years before John the Baptist and Jesus preached the solution. http://preparingyou.com/wiki/Masses
The struggle of Iran
The future of the world will not be secured by the might of men but by their repentance.
Why did violent extremists take over the millions of the people of Iran.
Did Iranians do some deeds that made them more vulnerable to tyrants?
Pre-Pahlavi Era Qajar Dynasty, 1794–1925
The process of Iran's descent into tyranny did not begin with the Ayatollah but it began when the people made the fatal error of depending on men in government who exercise authority one over the other for government welfare benefits. The dainties of rulers have long been known as a snare and a trap where liberty and the masses begin to degenerate.
State-sponsored welfare was virtually non-existent in the modern sense. Instead, support was fragmented and rooted in religious and social obligations.
- Religious Endowments (Vaqfs): The primary source of welfare was the vaqf system—charitable endowments managed by the clergy (ulama) that funded hospitals, schools, and soup kitchens.
- State Pensions for Elites crept into the state did provide pensions and subsidies, but these were almost exclusively for the royal court, high-ranking officials, and the military.
- Traditional Support: Most citizens relied on extended family networks and local community guilds for protection against sickness or poverty.
- Constitutional Demands appeared following the 1906 Constitutional Revolution, workers began demanding modern social insurance, though no concrete laws were implemented at that time.
Early Pahlavi Era (Reza Shah, 1925–1941)
Early Pahlavi Era (Reza Shah, 1925–1941) Reza Shah began the "Meiji-style" centralization of Iran, which included the first formal state-led social security initiatives. [8]
Social insurance
- Civil Servant Coverage: The first formal social insurance laws (1922, 1931, 1933) were designed to secure the loyalty of the rapidly growing state bureaucracy.
- Industrial Labor Initiatives: In 1936, the state introduced a program targeting urban workers in large enterprises to manage the challenges of a new industrial class.
- While Reza Shah built the Infrastructure over Welfare and centralized some services, his agricultural policy remained semi-feudal. He personally acquired thousands of villages, and most rural peasants remained without any state protection.
=Extent of Welfare Before 1941
- Highly Selective: Before 1941, "welfare" was a tool for state-building. It prioritized those essential to the regime's stability—soldiers and bureaucrats—while ignoring the vast majority of the rural population.
- Limited Implementation: While laws for non-government workers were drafted in the late 1930s, they largely remained a "dead letter" and were not effectively implemented until the mid-20th century.
Iran 1925–1941
Before the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (who is typically referred to as "the Shah"), social security and state welfare in Iran transitioned from a traditional, decentralized system to the first formal bureaucratic models under his father, Reza Shah Pahlavi (r. 1925–1941).
Before the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (who is typically referred to as "the Shah"), social security and state welfare in Iran transitioned from a traditional, decentralized system to the first formal bureaucratic models under his father, (r. 1925–1941).
Iran 1941–1979
Under the Shah (1941–1979), particularly after the 1963 White Revolution, Iran developed a state-led, albeit fragmented, social security system focusing on industrial workers and civil servants. Key welfare included worker social insurance (health, disability, pensions) and rural initiatives like land reform, aiming for modernization and political loyalty.
Social Security and Welfare
Worker Social Insurance was initiated properly in the 1940s-50s, the Social Insurance Organization (later Social Security Organization) provided pensions, disability payments, sickness benefits, maternity leave, and compensation for industrial injuries.
Civil Servants Retirement
Specialized, comprehensive pension and health coverage was provided for government employees.
White Revolution Reforms introduced in 1963, these initiatives aimed to improve rural life through land reform, profit-sharing for factory workers, and establishing rural cooperatives. Universal Health Coverage Attempts: By the 1970s, efforts included "Free Food for Needy Mothers" and newborns, alongside increasing investment in rural clinics.
Housing
Housing and Social Welfare by the state, via the White Revolution, aimed to provide stable, affordable housing and food support for rural and urban workers.
Extent of Welfare
Targeted Coverage: Social insurance was strong for urban employees of state-owned industries and state personnel, but limited for the vast agricultural population until the late 1960s/70s.
Fragmented System:
Welfare was largely managed through multiple, disparate organizations catering to specific, organized working groups rather than a comprehensive, national welfare state. Rapid Growth: The social security system grew rapidly, yet by the time of the 1979 revolution, it still had not achieved universal coverage, leaving a reliance on traditional family support structures.
Politicization of Welfare was partly a tool of state control, with the government aiming to win loyalty and prevent leftist insurgency by covering industrial workers.
"The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; [1] and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder,[2] until they degenerate[3] again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." [4] [5]
- Polybius saw the downfall of the republic by way of their free bread and welfare a 150 years before the first Emperor of Rome and 175 years before the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ who opposed these same systems of free bread at your neighbor's expense.
- The authoritarian State often uses force and violence to become the Benefactors of the people if the covet what is their neighbors'. They make a social contract where one class of citizen is forced to provide for another class through "legal charity" which is not true charity. The writings of the Apostles warned along with countless passages of ancient writings of the prophets including Proverbs 23 which warned them about what Christ forbid which was the covetous practices of socialist forms of government.
Iran 2026
Iran operates as a theocratic republic, a hybrid system where elected democratic institutions are subordinate to unelected clerical bodies. The structure is designed to ensure that all state activities align with Islamic law (Sharia).
The Supreme Leadership
Supreme Leader: The highest authority in the state. He serves as the head of state and commander-in-chief, holding ultimate power over the military, judiciary, and state media. Following the assassination of Ali Khamenei in February 2026, his son Mojtaba Khamenei has assumed the role. Assembly of Experts: A body of 88 clerics elected by the public to eight-year terms. Their constitutional duty is to elect, supervise, and—if necessary—dismiss the Supreme Leader, though they rarely challenge his authority.
Executive Branch
President: The second-highest official and head of government. Elected by popular vote for a four-year term (maximum two terms), the president manages day-to-day administration and the economy. Masoud Pezeshkian currently serves in this role.
All candidates must be approved by the religious counsel before they can even run
Cabinet: Composed of ministers chosen by the president and confirmed by the Parliament.
Legislative Branch Majlis (Parliament):
A unicameral legislature with 290 members elected to four-year terms. It drafts laws and approves the national budget.
Guardian Council: A powerful 12-member oversight body. It consists of six clerics appointed by the Supreme Leader and six jurists nominated by the judiciary and approved by the Majlis. It must approve all legislation to ensure it complies with the constitution and Islamic law, and it vets all candidates for elections.
Judicial Branch
Head of Judiciary: Appointed by the Supreme Leader for a five-year term. The current head is Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i. Court System: Includes public courts for civil and criminal cases, as well as Revolutionary Courts for national security crimes.
Sanctions
Following the Iranian Revolution, the government nationalized 28 private banks and numerous private industries. (1980–1988), over 80% of Iran's economy was under government control. 10 million people fled and million or more Iranians murdered with their assets seized. Who has been taking whose money?
There are many reasons for the sanctions.
Why 3,000 ballistic missiles.why did they lie about the range of missiles. Why so much money spent on a means to block the straights. Why so much money invested in proxy wars. Why are so many Iranians against the regime in power.
Key Oversight & Consultative Bodies
Expediency Council: Appointed by the Supreme Leader to mediate disputes between the Majlis and the Guardian Council. It also serves as a top advisory board to the leader.
Supreme National Security Council: Chaired by the president, it coordinates defense and foreign policy, with its decisions requiring the Supreme Leader's final approval.
The Quds Force
The Quds Force (meaning "Jerusalem Force" in Persian) is the elite extraterritorial branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It serves as the primary instrument for Iran’s regional power projection and unconventional warfare.
Military Role
- Extraterritorial Operations
The Quds Force functions as a combination of a special operations unit and an intelligence agency, similar to a blend of the CIA and JSOC.
Proxy Management
- It is the architect of the "Axis of Resistance," a network of regional allies including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and various Shia militias in Iraq and Syria.
Unconventional Warfare
- Its activities include training, arming, and financing these groups, as well as conducting assassinations, espionage, and clandestine operations abroad.
Strategic Defense
- By maintaining these proxy forces, the Quds Force establishes a "forward defense" for Iran, allowing it to engage adversaries like Israel and the U.S. indirectly.
Political Structure - A Parallel Authority
Within the Iranian state, the Quds Force operates with a high degree of independence from the elected government. Direct Accountability: While technically a branch of the IRGC, the Quds Force commander reports directly to the Supreme Leader. Following the transition of power in early March 2026, the Quds Force has officially declared its allegiance to the new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.
Foreign Policy Influence
- The force often acts as a "shadow" Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its commanders frequently negotiate directly with foreign leaders and non-state actors, sometimes bypassing the formal diplomatic channels of the Iranian President and Foreign Minister.
Command Structure
Commander Brigadier General Esmail Qaani has led the force since January 2020, succeeding Qasem Soleimani.
Independence
- Because it answers only to the Supreme Leader, it is not subject to parliamentary oversight or presidential endorsement.
Economic and Intelligence Functions
Financial Networks
- To fund its operations and bypass sanctions, the Quds Force manages extensive illicit commercial networks, including oil smuggling and money laundering.
Domestic Repression
- Although its primary mission is external, senior Quds Force commanders have historically participated in suppressing domestic dissent during major protest movements within Iran.
Civil government
Iran's civil government depends on elections but candidates have to be approved by a counsel or they cannot run for office. In fact anyone who oppose policies of the Islamic state may end up in prison or worse.
War cometh
Iran has been planning to block the straight and putting thousands of ballistic missiles, over 20 mine laying boats hundred of speed boats only good for sinking tankers and commercial boats. They were ordering supersonic missiles. They claimed their ballistic missile could only go 1209 kilometer but have been shooting missiles over 4000 kilometers. They lied!
They funded the Hutty to close a choke point for oil while there plan was to cut oil at Hurmuz straights and that is why and what they were planning for years. Their goal was to control other countries with these choke points. Some of those countries are on the board of peace and helping break this regime that has threatened peace for years, funded terrorism, and brutalized their own citizens for years
10 million of their citizens have fled the country and over a million killed in the last 4 decades. Millions of women raped and abused, deprived of liberty American women take fo granted. Lately thousands have been killed by that ruthless government for wanting liberties Americans do not appreciate . In fact if every one who said the believe in Jesus, or Moses or even Abraham there would be no reason to even risk war.
Footnotes
- ↑ Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
- ↑ Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
- ↑ Social welfare through the State takes away dignity, purpose, and social affirmation.
- ↑ "But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. 6 So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. 7 And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. 8 For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; 9 and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." Polybius: The Histories (composed at Rome around 130 BC)Fragments of Book at Loeb's classic library, or see our comparison of translations at Polybius#Translations_compare
- ↑ An alternate translation in context, "9. For no sooner had the knowledge of the jealousy and hatred existing in the citizens against them which is replaced by democracy, emboldened some one to oppose the government by word or deed, than he was sure to find the whole people ready and prepared to take his side. Having then got rid of these rulers by assassination or exile, they do not venture to set up a king again, being still in terror of the injustice to which this led before; nor dare they intrust the common interests again to more than one, considering the recent example of their misconduct: and therefore, as the only sound hope left them is that which depends upon themselves, they are driven to take refuge in that; and so changed the constitution from an oligarchy to a democracy, and took upon themselves the superintendence and charge of the state. And as long as any survive who have had experience of oligarchical supremacy and domination, they regard their present constitution as a blessing, and hold equality and freedom as of the utmost value. But as soon as a new generation has arisen, and the democracy has descended to their children’s children, long association weakens their value for equality and freedom, and some seek to become more powerful than the ordinary citizens; and the most liable to this temptation are the rich. (which degenerates into rule of corruption and violence, only to be stopped by a return to despotism.) So when they begin to be fond of office, and find themselves unable to obtain it by their own unassisted efforts and their own merits, they ruin their estates, while enticing and corrupting the common people in every possible way. By which means when, in their senseless mania for reputation, they have made the populace ready and greedy to receive bribes, the virtue of democracy is destroyed, and it is transformed into a government of violence and the strong hand. For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbours, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honours, produces a reign of mere violence. Then come tumultuous assemblies, massacres, banishments, redivisions of land; until, after losing all trace of civilisation, it has once more found a master and a despot." Translator: Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Release Date: November 8, 2013 [EBook #44126]