PrintMarch 15, 2007
Iran's Three Hairline Cracks
When a towering granite cliff begins to come apart, you may not be see anything but tiny hairline cracks at the beginning. The same is true in politics. When the Soviet Union began to fall, the first news came in the shape of little oddities, strange tidbits of information that were somehow different from the rhythm of Cold War hostility before 1988 or ‘89. Then those tiny fissures began to spread, until whole pieces started to crumble and fall, and finally the giant superstructure of the Soviet Bloc came apart in slow motion chaos. Three tiny hairline cracks are showing up in Iran. It's hard to know what they mean. But they haven't happened before. Something is up. 1. The first top-level defection from the hardest of the hard-line stormtroopers --- a General Ashgari of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Ashgari was assistant defense minister, and may have been a Western mole in place for some time, possibly for many years. This is...(Read Full Article)
