Iranian Officials can't walk the streets

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasn't selected by the Islamic leadership to conduct foreign policy. Ahmadinejad may have been named president of Iran to literally save the Islamic regime.

Iranian officials, particularly those representing the police and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, have become the target of Iranians in major cities. At first, the regime thought it was dealing with an organized insurgency movement.

No longer. More and more young Iranians are resorting to violence against the regime and its representatives. They are frustrated with empty promises of jobs and increasing restrictions. When they see a lone representative of the regime they see an opportunity. READ MORE

The result is that police have assumed a lower profile throughout Iran.

In their place, Basij vigilantes and even Hizbullah operatives from Lebanon are called to maintain order and defend the regime in Teheran and other cities.

Today, no one is more hated by ordinary Iranian young people than the Basij officer. Basij and other security officers have been attacked and killed in several Iranian cities. A colonel in one of the security agencies was killed during a shoot-out in the turbulent Teheran suburb of Eslamshahr.

In Teheran, a Basij officer was stabbed to death in the Baghestan area of the Iranian capital. Iranian opposition sources said the officer threatened two young Iranians over what he said was un-Islamic behavior. When the officer pulled his gun, one of the two Iranians jumped the Basij member and stabbed him to death.

The amazing thing was the response of bystanders. They applauded as the officer bled to death.

Ahmadinejad might not mark the revival of the Islamic regime. Rather, he might be the Iranian version Yuri Andropov, the KGB chief turned Soviet ruler in 1984 — the last gasp of a despotic regime.

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