Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Fully Crunk

Great Satan's new school mix featuring intelligentsia and regime killers in creating a future military fully crunk is a challlenge.

"Resolving the stark divergence between America's military ends and means--in
terms of force size, training, and modernization--will be a crucial challenge."
"Ground Truth The Future of US Land Power" by Frederick Kagan and Thomas Donnelly brings up 5 killer quizes like "The Nature of Conflict and Attempts to Predict the Nature of Future War"

What is the strategic role of Great Satan's insurgent surging, regime changing, globestomping, Ray Bann wearing, heavy intelligent precision weaponry bearing, skoal chomping heathern hellions on the ground?

Future Missions?

What is the nature of land warfare in the twenty-first century?

What qualities are necessary to succeed on the battlefields of the Long War?

What is the ideal size and configuration of the force--and how much will it cost?

The chapter about recent regime changes in record time, surging, and counter T ops looks pretty cool - even featuring a Little Satan event too. Love the titles!

The Invasion of Iraq: Speed Kills

Tal Afar: Conventional Forces in Irregular War

Israel in Lebanon: Serial Surprise

Lost and Won: The Fight for Anbar

Building Partners: The Abu Sayyaf Campaign

This is significant. Dr. Donnelly and Dr Kagan (who helped think up Surge as his bit in the ISG) laid down the gauntlet with his recent Weekly Standard piece defining success and dissing dissenters
Here is a gauntlet thrown down: Let those who claim that the current
strategy has failed and must be replaced lay out their own strategy, along with
their definition of success, criteria for evaluating success, and the
evidentiary basis for their evaluations.
Then, perhaps, we can have a real national debate on this most important
issue.

"Ground Truth" makes a case for a high tech fully crunk future military that can kill, heal and deal with rocket rich rejects in innocent civilian heavy pocket caliphates, rising regional semi nuke wmd hegemonal theocracies and old school family gangsta states, amphibing Sino civil wars across the straights of Taiwan, scary scary oathbreaking NoKo guy, Russian force projections and retarded pitiful little rats nests that misrule, rob, torment their own people and their neighbors.

 
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

"Appropriate Lesson"

Right before getting his soon to be jumped up Ayatollah assets surged out of the hood, Mookie spoke glowingly about the support - spiritual and tactical - that the most proficient killers and serial tormentors of Americans til 911 time had provided Mahdi Army.

Nothing but love between intolerant, illegetimate militias that are frightened of free choice, girls unbound or future militaries like those only found in democracies arsenals. It's only natural - natch.

"We have formal links with Hiz'B'Allah, we do exchange ideas and discuss the
situation facing Shiites in both countries. It is natural that we would want to
improve ourselves by learning from each other.

We copy Hiz'B'Allah - the way they fight and their tactics, we teach each other and we are getting better through this.

We go and discuss what Israel's future plans are in the Middle East because we are part of whatever will happen."


These buddied up brain storming sessions are part of an overall strategy - aided, abetted, funded, guided, fed and bled by Preacher Command in Tehran along with their foreign act out meddlers in the Revo Guard.

The Master Plan?

"The rockets fired from Gaza and from Sadr City are two prongs of an offensive
aimed at forcing the United States out of Iraq, putting Israel on the defensive
-- and leaving Iran as the region's pre eminent power.

The third front, in Lebanon, is also the model. The fourth front is in Afghanistan, where Taliban militiamen near the Iranian border now come armed with Iranian-made weapons."

And that model includes tactical smokescreen deployment of the ever popular thug hugging result free dialouge

"The Iraqi government is negotiating with both Sadr and Iran; Israel is
talking to Hamas through Egypt.

Both militias say they would be happy to observe a cease-fire in exchange for political concessions. (GsGf - Mookie says being weaponry free would never work. They are de riger to seize control of Iraq and impose a - your choice - emirate, caliphate, mohammedist society or theocracy).

But neither will agree to disarm.

This is again the model of Hezbollah, which participates in the Lebanese
parliament but refuses to give up its weapons, giving it the ability to wage war
at any time of its -- or Tehran's -- choosing.

Hamas will not surrender its option to bleed Israel, nor will the Mahdi
Army its means to harry the American enemy."


Strategic smokescreens code named 'Grand Bargain" with Iranian revolutionary exporters in Persia is even less likely to succeed.
"A grimmer possibility: that Iran believes that its offensive is succeeding and that its goals are within reach, and that it has no intention of stopping. As long as neither Israeli nor U.S. commanders can find a way to win the war of the rockets, that's likely to be the case. "

Captured and defected cats from Iran's "al Qods Force" (kinda like a Revo Guard Special Forces cadre) are securely suffering in the clutches of Great Satan and providing some sweet intell and target lists.

“We have multiple detainees who state Lebanese Hizbollah are providing training
to Iraqis in Iranian IRGC-QF training camps near Tehran. We have captured other
Iraqis who have discussed their training in Iran and who state many of their
instructors were Lebanese Hiz'B'Allah.”

This is significant. The inventers of Chess could be facing upstarts that invented Strip Poker.

Great Satan's avuncular 'Stache' Grande points to overt covert asymmetrical warfare as a possibility to present the ever pragmatic, practical mullahs and their bloody fanboys with options.
“This is a case where the use of military force against a training camp to show
the Iranians we’re not going to tolerate this is really the most prudent thing
to do.

Then the ball would be in Iran’s court to draw the appropriate lesson to stop
harming our troops.”

In such a happy event, few tears would be shed for the annihilation of HBA on TDY, AL Qods cadre or Mahdi Army weapon depots.

If Iraqi stability is all the rave - then progenitors of destability may need to get sent to the grave.

HBA's Al Manar TV (courtesy of Faux News) sheds really cool light on a revenge heavy hanky panky plot by Great Satan
"was unprecedented in its scope. From Lebanon to Afghanistan--but is also far more sweeping in the type of actions."

Monday, May 5, 2008

Daemoneoconess

Neocons and neoconism. Spoken in certain circles these powerful encantations may summon curses, spitting or faux obits - or worse - a retarded historical redux that will totally reinvent recent history to such a point that true and wanna be students find unrecognizable.


Critics tend to become nigh unhinged and try to paint risque landscape that such ideals are Trotskyish, unAmerican (code for Little Satan), dangerously arrogant, an eagerness to use the military to change regimes, attack enemies (real or imagined) and doomed to failure.

Neoism kinda promotes a moralist and idealist view of world affairs, a belief in America’s exceptional role as a promoter of the principles of liberty and democracy (Great Satan), a belief in the preservation and exercise of American Power - including military power, as a device/weapon/tool for defending and advancing moralistic and idealistic causes, and a healthy suspect of internat'l institutions (like the UN) and a natural tendency toward 'unilateralism.'


Anti Fans of America Unbound will generally deride daydreamy dreams like the essential "Case For Democracy" by Sharansky as a prelude to Imperial idiocy.

To those who fear Great Satan, the reasons are not merely idealistic but down right dangerous! (Just check in with Milosevic, Uday, Usay or Saddam - oh yeah - really can't check in with them - but their failed, played despotic wrecks of semi nation states can testify to that!)

So the wicked wacky Neocons are totally jazzed about the unlimited capacity of American power to effect positive change?


Even these deliberately retarded raison de etre create something recognizable, a foreign policy that combos an idealist’s moralism, with a realist’s belief in the import of power.

Where does neoism really come from?

America's commitment to universal principles built into Great Satan's founding framing docs. These principles are not debatable - indeed as Alex Hamilton laid it out- "... written in the stars by the hand of God..."

Americans know the truth, and do not admit alternate truths. Instead of playing the relevancy game Americans play 'Which one of these is not like the other?"

"Oh things for instance things like supremacy of democratic states over
tyrannies, which is just a very simply notion. The fact that there is not moral equivalence between a despot and a democratic leader, that we free people do not inhabit the same plane morally as terrorists
"

Democracy is the only legitimate form of government, and America as the greatest democracy is the most legitimate of all.

Unbridled freedom and lawful ambition - for bling, prestige - and power - has taken Americans outward for like the last 3 centuries.

In fact, the expansive, idealistic, and at times crunk and disorderly militaristic American approach to foreign policy has produced some accomplishments of world historical import—like ripping the guts out of Nazism, Japanese imperialism, and collapsing Soviet style collectivism - and some 'My Bad! y'all! and disappointing disaappointments.

It's not like all the successes were created by a good America and all the failures created by bad America. They were all creations of the same America.

The achievements, as well as the failures, are not really from innocence or sweet gracious purity of motive, and not because Americans lived by a make believe code of conduct in the world.

These achievements were and are archived because of the myriad of qualities that put the Great in Great Satan.

A willingness to accumulate, acquire and use power, ambition and sense of honor, to actually go out into the world and strike down evil if the need or even opportunity arises.

America's nigh indefatiguable spirit in defense of interests, principles - fairness - America's rejection of the same o same o and America's belief in change is unique. Without class, sacred bloodlines or holy tribal turf.

Are we really jazzed about throwing up our hands and abandoning the course?

Or, shall we recog what we are - embrace it, upgrade it and implement it?

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Despotic Diatribe

We should pay attention to freedom, democracy and justice-seeking – that the Revolution propagated and introduced Islam through the views, mottoes and viewpoints on them. Today also at different levels in the world there is a campaign against all concepts of the Islamic teachings founded in Islam. It is a campaign against the religious trust in terms of life affairs and against the theoretical and practical reconciliation between religion and democracy. There used to be a major campaign against the unity of the ummah which was experienced by colonialism in the past.

As regards the people, the most important thing done by the late Imam was to distance the definition of democracy from what the directors of Western democracy and their agents wanted to show in academic circles. They attempted to make people disbelieve in any sort of reconciliation between democracy and religion. The Imam cancelled this abrogated meaning and introduced religious democracy – which is actually the Islamic Republic – to the world. But this was not adequate to him. He did it at a theoretical and a practical level too.

Today the system of the Islamic Republic – which is a religious system whose regulations, principles and values are rooted in religion – is a full-fledged democratic system unparalleled by any other Muslim state. Of course, this truth is very bitter to the enemy. They do not like the idea of having religion and democracy on the same flag. They are attempting to separate the two.

Thus the truth about the Islamic Republic is very painful to them. They have exploited various propaganda means and agents to invite the Iranian nation to democracy in order to divert the world public opinion from this bright truth. This great satire of our time and region. They had acknowledged the despotic systems, the Pahlavi regime and the regimes which know nothing of democracy.

While, at the same time, they invite to democracy the Islamic Republic whose members of parliament and all the pillars of the society are directly or indirectly selected through the votes of people! While this is the case in our country, the U.S. president took over through undemocratic means. This is a fact everyone knows about. They have no problem with totalitarian regimes since such regimes submit easily.

They come to a compromise with systems that have taken over through coup d’etat because they surrender to them so easily. But they criticize the Islamic system due to its belief in independence and its own values and not because it is not ready to submit to their domination. So they accuse it of despotism and dictatorship which appropriately befit their own systems.

Today our best criteria especially for our officials are those based on religious democracy for improving our morality and manners.

Do not make mistake, this sort of democracy has nothing to do with the Western version. It is quite different.

It consists of two things: It is not like importing democracy from the west and then attaching it to religion. Democracy itself belongs to religion. As I mentioned earlier, democracy has two aspects: One aspect is that the structure of the system is constructed by the people; in other words, people select their system; they choose the government; they choose the members of parliament; they choose the important officials directly or indirectly. This is what claimed but not actualized in the West.

Some really get upset because we do not take the Western claim of democracy seriously. They take it as prejudice. But actually this is neither our mere words nor a prejudiced one. It is well-informed and based on the comments and examples of the outstanding literature of the West.

This is what they say. They do not admit it when they are dealing with public opinion. In public, they say that the only thing which exists is public opinion. But this is not the whole story. They admit this at some levels. There are many examples to this meaning. Is this democracy?! We do not say such a thing.

We say that one aspect of religious democracy is the opinion of the people. Of course, people should know, understand and decide so that they will fulfill their religious obligation. Without knowledge they will have no obligations.

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Friday, May 2, 2008

Auto Dreams



Between the Fall of the Wall and the Fall of the Towers, the world changed. As ancient, played collectivist dictatorships either fell or wobbled worse than weebils many govs tried to fire up a game of internal appeasement while maintaining political control.

"Autocrats" is the name and control is the game. One of Great Satan's coolest intelligentsia lays it out in a great bit that WaPo pubbed.

Robert Kagan is one of the Ancient PNACers. An original Neocon and an avatar of America Unbound.

Since Great Satan is the world's sole hyper power - lesser cats are reviving a game of 'Great Powers"

"Ideology matters again. The big development of recent years is the rise not
only of great powers but also of the great-power autocracies of Russia and
China. True realism about the international scene begins with understanding how
this unanticipated shift will shape our world."

Many believe that when Chinese and Russian leaders stopped believing in
communism, they stopped believing in anything. They had become pragmatists,
pursuing their own and their nation's interests.

But Chinese and Russian rulers, like past rulers of autocracies, do have a
set of beliefs that guide their domestic and foreign policies. They believe in
the virtues of strong central government and disdain the weaknesses of the
democratic system. They believe strong rule at home is necessary if their
nations are to be respected in the world. Chinese and Russian leaders are not
just autocrats. They believe in autocracy.

And why shouldn't they? In Russia and China, growing national wealth and
autocracy have proved compatible, contrary to predictions in the liberal West.
Moscow and Beijing have figured out how to permit open economic activity while
suppressing political activity. People making money will keep their noses out of
politics, especially if they know their noses will be cut off if they don't. New
wealth gives autocracies a greater ability to control information -- to
monopolize television stations and control Internet traffic, for instance --
often with the assistance of foreign corporations eager to do business with
them.

In the long run, rising prosperity may produce political liberalism, but how
long is the long run? It may be too long to have strategic or geopolitical
relevance.

In the meantime, the power and durability of these autocracies will shape the
international system. The world is not about to embark on a new ideological
struggle of the sort that dominated the Cold War. But the new era, rather than
being a time of common values and shared interests, will be one of growing
tensions and sometimes confrontation between the forces of democracy and those
of autocracy.

If autocracies have their own set of beliefs, they also have their own set of
interests. China's and Russia's rulers are pragmatic chiefly in protecting their
continued rule. Their interest in self-preservation shapes their approach to
foreign policy.

Russia is a good example of how a nation's governance affects its relations
with the world. A democratizing Russia, and even Mikhail Gorbachev's democratizing Soviet Union, took a fairly benign view of NATO and tended to have good relations with neighbors that were treading the same path toward democracy. But Vladimir Putin regards NATO as a hostile entity, calls its enlargement "a serious provocation" and asks "against whom is this expansion intended?" Yet NATO is less provocative and threatening toward Moscow today than it was in Gorbachev's time.

What is so scary about NATO? Military power? Nope. After all - Europa couldn't even take an 8 hour panzer drive to to Balkania to put Milosevic out of biz. Most of NATO only knows how to enjoy their freedom - not manning up to kill killers in scary places in the world.

Kagan preaches it right down the line.

It is the democracy.
The post-Cold War world looks different from autocratic Beijing and Moscow than
it does from democratic Washington, London, Paris, Berlin or Brussels. The
"color revolutions" in Georgia and Ukraine, so celebrated in the West, worried
Putin because they checked his regional ambitions and because he feared their
examples could be repeated in Russia. Even today he warns against "jackals" in
Russia who "got a crash course from foreign experts, got trained in neighboring
republics and will try here now."

American and European policymakers say they want Russia and China to
integrate into the international liberal order, but it is not surprising if
Russian and Chinese leaders are wary. Can autocrats enter the liberal
international order without succumbing to the forces of liberalism?
Afraid of the answer, the autocracies are understandably pushing back, with some
effect.

Controlled rule by autocratic autocrats - despite being so played and down right immoral is phoenixing to act out on the world stage. The last man and the "End Of History" may have probs dealing with it - but the lust for power is like any other other lust - all consuming, driving and nigh unquenchable. And the lust for absolute power is absolutely lustful.
Fascism was in vogue in Latin America in the 1930s and '40s partly because it
seemed successful in Italy, Germany and Spain. The rising power of democracies
in the last years of the Cold War, culminating in communism's collapse after
1989, contributed to the global wave of democratization.

The rise of two powerful autocracies may shift the balance back again.
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, welcomes the return of ideological competition.

"For the first time in many years," he boasts, "a real competitive environment
has emerged on the market of ideas" between different "value systems and
development models."

And the good news, from the Kremlin's perspective, is that "the West is losing its
monopoly on the globalization process."

All this comes as an unwelcome surprise to a democratic world that believed such
competition ended when the Berlin Wall fell.

The New Millennium is not a dream. Yet, it is time to wake up and begin a benign tough policy of selective intervention and constant confrontation.

Pic by Hido

Russians In Iran?

Russia's Peter the Great Military Academy is an ancient War College founded way back in the 1820's. Named after the cat who dragged Russia kicking and screaming into the age of sail and empire - the Academy today is cutting edge and egalitarian.

Russia's GRU site has a cool pic featurette featuring babettes learning and prepping for careers in Strategic Missile Forces.

"The academy offers career training in over 29 fields for the Strategic Missile
Forces, Space Forces, Army, Navy and Air Force, as well as the Russian Defense
Ministry’s main and central directorates."

With missiles, missile defenses and sheilding sprouting up all over Eurasia recent talk of buddying up with Tehran is a concern. The mullah's handpicked little rocketeer
"Iran and Russia are two major powerful countries, and cooperation between our states in settling various problems will serve the interests of Russian and Iranian
nations as well as regional and international security. We each serve an
efficient role in establishing a new model of international relations."

This is significant. Amer Taheri shares some history and gossip about a 'new model' hook up with Iran and Russia that may be more old school than anyone would reckon.


Why is the leadership in Tehran anxious to give Russia the right to land troops
in Iran?

"The question is not fanciful. The Islamic Republic is conducting a devious campaign to prepare public opinion for that eventuality.

The message is relayed through deliberately vague terms that diplomats understand immediately while the general public does not.

The device is to revive two treaties that most students of Iranian history thought were dead and buried long ago.

The first is the 1921 Treaty that the government of Sayyed Ziauddin Tabatabai, soon after coming to power in a putsch, signed with Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik regime.


Under the treaty, Lenin agreed to cancel the debts Iran had accumulated towards the Tsarist Empire. He also undertook to withdraw his troops from Gilan. The treaty revised relations in the Caspian Sea, granting Iran greater rights of fishing and navigation. That amounted to a generous gesture towards Tabatabai’s new government that, still fragile, needed all the good news it could get in relations with the major powers.

Nevertheless, as always when a weak nation makes a pact with a much larger neighbour, the treaty had a sting in its tail. It gave the Russians the right to land troops in Iran when and if troops of any other foreign power arrived in Iran. At the time it was Britain that Lenin had in mind. For his part, Tabatabai wanted to use the threat of Russian military intervention as a means of forcing the British to end their military presence in Iran.

However, in one of those twists of history, the treaty was never used for its original purpose. The British soon abandoned their anti-Bolshevik allies whom they found too weak to defeat Lenin’s new empire. Lenin, for his part, believing he could add Iran to his empire through ideological agitation rather than conquest, abandoned the Mullah of the Jungle and withdrew the Soviet troops.


So, one can imagine the surprise caused by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s decision to suddenly start speaking of the two treaties as if they were still valid.

He and his aides, including Foreign Minister Manuchehr Motakki, have mentioned the treaties with regard to the status of the Caspian Sea and the application by the Islamic Republic to join Russia and China in the Shanghai Group, an informal framework for security cooperation.

Motakki has gone further by suggesting that Iran abandon the Persian name for the Caspian Sea, that is to say the Sea of Mazandaran, and adopt the Russian name mentioned in the treaties. To sweeten Russia further, Motakki has also hinted at abandoning Iran’s demand for a 20 per cent share in the Caspian’s resources, settling, instead, for just over 11 per cent.

Why is an administration that pretends it has a mission from the “Hidden Imam” to liberate the whole world keen to give Russia a licence to land troops in Iran?

Has the Khomeinist president has decided that a war with the United States is inevitable?

In such a war, the Americans may well seize Iran’s oilfields, an easy target for
a surprise attack and a difficult asset for defenders to protect.

Once that happens Russia could land troops in northern Iran and then go to
the United Nations to ask for a generalised ceasefire and the fixing of a
timetable for the withdrawal of “all foreign troops from all Iranian territory.”

The US would come under global pressure to cooperate with Russia in ending
the conflict and paving the way for the departure of foreign troops and the
restoration of Iranian sovereignty.

If that is how Ahmadinejad thinks, he has just returned to 1921 and Sayyed Ziauddin Tabatabai in an Iran as weak and as vulnerable. And that, for a man whose ambition is to lead mankind on a new path away from that fixed by “American Arrogance,” is not something to be proud of. "

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Bahar Bie

"I think every Barbie doll is more harmful than an American missile"
So said Persian Toymongerer Masoumeh Rahimi.

Like 6 years ago fronting for the Mullah's Toy Patrol. Putting the best face on, no doubt for the totally retarded Great Barbie Confiscation Raids of '02, even as her best money maker was being declared non gratis.
"Bahar Bie is "foreign to Iran's culture" because some of the popular
Western dolls wear revealing clothing. Maiden girls who play with Barbie, a
doll she sees as wanton, could grow into women who reject Iranian values. "

What a doll. She also heralded the arrival of Barbie's Official State Sanctioned Ersatz Anti Mattel Mullah Approved "Dara and Sara"

"Dara and Sara were born as characters in elementary school books. Their story
continues in tales in verse recorded on cassettes that hit stores along with the
dolls Tuesday. In their adventures the brother and sister help each other solve
problems and turn to their loving parents for guidance.

"All four models of Sara come with a white headscarf to cover either black
or brown curls. One outfit consists of a knee-length, loose orange shirt,
blue pants and white socks. Another is a flower-dotted shirt and a full-length flower-dotted white chador, a robe covering the body from head to toe.

Almond-eyed Sara and her brother are described as 8-years-old. It's OK for
8-year-old girls to appear in public without a headscarf in this officially
Islamic republic where women are legally obliged to dress modestly though some
clerics encourage even 6-year-old girls to cover their hair when they're outside
their homes.

Dara comes in two outfits - black pants, a white shirt and a black jacket or a
beige shirt, blue pants and red jacket.

Wheee. That sounds fun. The mullahocracy deployed over a 100K Daras and Sarahs to marginalize Bahar Bie and her irresistable appeals - like fun and free choice.

This is significant. Controlled societies need control to remain controlled societies. Particularly ones that want to stay in control. And in a nation fully crunk with tons of super educated kids - instilling hope for choice in the future - about anything really - like unarranging marriages, blinging for sexy clothes and cool do's (or don'ts) - hanging and socializing.

It was a smooth move (not!) to replace Barbie with little kid dolls. And it sooo did not work!

Witchfinder General Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi admitted suffering a decisive defeat.

Boring stories, anime' and foot tall dutiful regime loving children (with only 2 outfits! Can you believe it?!) competing against Barbie, Batman, Harry Potter and Spidey?

It was no contest.

"The displays of personalities such as Barbie, Batman, Spiderman and Harry
Potter
... as well as the irregular importation of unsanctioned computer games
and movies are all warning bells to the officials in the cultural arena"

"Danger! Destructive! Trojan Horse" usurping morals by showcasing Barbie and her ho'd out collection of skimpy skirts, super short shorty shorts, tank tops (unarmored) and flashes flesh.

And so important that a chief tormenter, nuclear spy hunter, killer commander, the Anti Petraeus - a real live Purging General had to handle it.

Najafabadi, a big fan of capitol punishment, is a politician too. Before getting the gig as the Supreme Leader's Top Cop, Dori's dossier describes a dauntless dissident destroyer. Defender of the Faith. Dori's murderers murdered dissidents like Darioush and Parvaneh Forouharanaged in Nov '98.

Iran's Enforcer of the Regime openly addressed the Iranian VP Vice President Parviz Davoudi in an open letter in an election year.

"These toys, which do not respect the required norms, present dangers for the
health of children and affect the survival of toy factories in this country."

"Mohammedist culture and revolutionary values” are being marginalized, and
under threat of onslaught.

“We need to find substitutes to ward off this onslaught, which aims at
children and young people whose personality is in the process of being
formed”


Substitutes for control may not be found. 'Besiji Bahar Bie!" Complete with camo cut offs and a blessed will to march quickly to her death for the Supreme Leader - ( in bloody 'Final Offensives' that were horrifically offensive) may not work either.


After all, since Barbie has been almost officially discouraged for years - parents are dissing the regime and eschewing Dara and Sarah. By extension dissing the theocracy.

A gross poureous veener of 'democracy' in a land frightened of Batman, Barbie, the web, free choice, egalitarianism.

It is so played. So fake.

Human Rights advocate Shirin Ebadi explains that politics with Preacher Command and their IRRGC fanboys is a waste of time.
"When reformist President Khatami was first elected to the presidency, he
got 22 million votes. A decade later when Ahmadinejad was elected...he only
got 14 million votes. Do these numbers speak to you?"

Yeah. Deploy the BRATZ.