{"id":127222,"date":"2020-12-06T01:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T22:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/with-biden-win-some-iranians-lose-hope-ayatollahs-will-fall\/"},"modified":"2020-12-06T01:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T22:03:51","slug":"with-biden-win-some-iranians-lose-hope-ayatollahs-will-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/with-biden-win-some-iranians-lose-hope-ayatollahs-will-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"#With Biden win, some Iranians lose hope ayatollahs will fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#With Biden win, some Iranians lose hope ayatollahs will fall<\/strong>”
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For some Iranians, President Donald Trump\u2019s hard-line strategy against their country brought political hope even as it brought economic misery.<\/p>\n

But they expect just the opposite from President-elect Joe Biden: the economy might improve, but the chances that the dictatorial ayatollahs could fall are fading fast.<\/p>\n

Two years after the U.S. imposed tough sanctions on Iran after withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, Iran\u2019s economy is crippled, the Times of London reported. Millions of Iran\u2019s middle class have fallen into poverty, while inflation has skyrocketed to 41%.<\/p>\n

And mass demonstrations have roiled the country for nearly a year. Tens of thousands took to the streets last November to protest a doubling of gas prices. In January, Iran downed a Ukranian commercial airliner, igniting more unrest. Crowds demanded the resignation of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, yelling \u201cdeath to the dictator.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, despite the public signs of growing opposition to the regime, some Iranians believe an outside force is needed to help bring about political reform. They stand firm that Trump would have been that force if Americans had given him a second term.<\/p>\n

They compare Trump\u2019s app<\/a>roach to President Ronald Reagan\u2019s 1987 challenge to Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev \u2014 to \u201ctear down\u201d the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the Communist regime that had divided Germany. Foreign policy experts later credited Reagan\u2019s words with helping usher the Soviet Union\u2019s collapse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump administration was the only U.S. administration to distinguish between Iran in terms of its people, history and geography, and the Islamic Republic as its governing body,\u201d said one Iranian Trump supporter who lives in the ancient city of Shiraz. \u201cFrom this viewpoint, the Islamic Republic is no longer an unalterable fact, and it could change.\u201d<\/p>\n

From this perspective, Biden\u2019s plans to reenter the nuclear deal and talk to Iran\u2019s leaders are seen as a way to perpetuate the ayatollahs\u2019 rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump is kind of attractive for people like the Iranian middle class because he bullies anyone \u2014 and in Iran, the one who bullies, he or she has power,\u201d said a journalist who lives in Tehran.<\/p>\n

A story that the journalist wrote wrote online about the U. S. election generated a surprising amount of pro-Trump response.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feedback I received showed people maybe want Trump to win \u2013 and it really shocked me,\u201d she said. \u201cI know there are lots of people who think it\u2019s not so good for us that Biden is here because he\u2019ll talk to the government, everything will go back, and the Islamic Republic will survive.\u201c<\/p>\n

Yet experts pushed back on the idea that another four years of Trump would have led to a change in leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHad Trump won, we would have expected inflation to continue and to worsen. That had been the trend over the past year, and was exacerbated by COVID-19 situation,\u201d said Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, founder of the think tank Bourse & Bazaar.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat would have caused an increase in political instability and unrest, because of a situation where more Iranians would have been pushed into poverty. It would probably have led to the government being somewhat delegitimized and a low turnout in elections. But these are all very different from the collapse of the regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump wanted the Iranian people to rise up against the ayatollahs, agreed Ellie Geranmayeh, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank. But she noted that crackdowns have followed protests and no opposition leaders strong enough to command an uprising have emerged.<\/p>\n

Many Iranians, she said, take the chaos that has erupted after mass uprisings in countries like Syria as a warning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a lot of frustration at the political leadership, but many people are focused on making ends meet at the moment,\u201d said Geranmayeh. \u201cThere\u2019s no example they can point to and say that regime change has worked out well \u2013 all they see is insecurity.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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