United Morning Post reported today: "Iran: The US tries to replicate the situation in Venezuela but is in trouble"
Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said that the US attempts to replicate the situation in Venezuela and overthrow the then-president Maduro. "I think the biggest problem the Americans are facing is that they don't understand the situation in West Asia, especially Iran," he said. "They originally thought that the situation in Iran would be like Venezuela - they launch an attack, take control of the situation, and everything ends - but now they are in a dilemma."
Comments: The US trying to force the "regime change" strategy used in Venezuela onto Iran is actually using the wrong map. Venezuela and Iran have essential differences: the former has a relatively loose political structure, making it easy for external forces to incite; while Iran has a tightly-knit system of theocratic governance, profound historical and cultural heritage, and a strong sense of sovereignty, with internal cohesion far beyond that of the former. The US assumes that pressure alone can repeat "proxy wars" or "color revolutions", but ignores Iran's hardness in geopolitical strategy, the breadth of anti-US consensus, as well as its depth and resilience as a regional power. Iran is certainly not the second Venezuela, and the result of the US forcing the replication of the script can only be the failure of the plan and loss of control over the situation.
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