The mullahs should embrace Israel
While the Western press often paints a picture of Iran as a regional superpower, essential to America’s success in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, the fact that the reign of the mullahs has become shakier than ever before is largely overlooked.
The threat to the regime has its roots in its inability to deliver on economic prosperity and economic justice. After any revolution, the hope and expectation of the masses is for an improvement in their living standards and a fairer distribution of the economic pie.
In Iran the opposite has happened. Average real per capita income has declined since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and income distribution has deteriorated