Beware: Iranian reformists are the new hardliners

As I celebrate with my fellow Iranians the elimination of so many leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other extremist leaders, I am deeply concerned about the future of Iran and the deception and infiltration of the so called “reformists.” The world must understand that “reformists” exist solely to deceive Iranians and the world that there are “moderates” under, and to prop up, the Islamic Republic. But they are allowed to exist at all because of the “hardliners” who are branded as extremists. It’s like a theological good cop-bad cop. Under the current situation, “reformists” must be outed as the new hardliners, all of the same DNA and equally dangerous to Iran and the world.  

So far, all the Islamic regime officials who have been eliminated are the original hardliners. Unfortunately I do not see any “reformists” who have been eliminated, people like Ayatollah Rohani, Mehdi Karoubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Masoud Pezeshkian, Javad Zarif, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, Saeed Hajarian, Ayatollah Khatami, Masoumeh Ebtekar and many others who played a big role in deceiving Iranians and western people through treason, murdering innocent Iranians, and keeping the Islamic regime in power. They must also face justice. They cannot be allowed to play a role in Iran’s future. 

I have warned widely about the “reformists” whose powerful lobby and fake trained opposition agents in the United States and western countries. The “reformists” domestically and internationally act as oxygen to the regime since its emergence. They are a main reason that the Islamic regime is in power for 47 years. They must also face justice for misleading western people, hiding the true voice and demand of the Iranian people, and profiting in the millions by taking advantage of the blood of Iranian protesters who sacrificed their lives in the streets. 

Western politicians must pay attention to the threat of the “reformists” who are willing to cooperate with anyone, practice the Islamic principle of taqiyah – lying to infidels - as long as they can keep the Islamic regime in power. Their agents and lobbies outside Iran, such as NIAC, (National Iranian American Council) wear western clothes, talk about democracy, but wear any masks to keep the regime in power. Even if it requires saying “death to Khamenei,” they will do it. It’s all about lies and deceit. 

Their modus operandi is to mislead western politicians, spreading the regime’s lies and propaganda through their puppet opposition, and prevent the true voices of the vast majority of Iranians who are against the regime to be heard. Through connections with the reformists in Iran, and their agenda is that after the fall of the regime, they will retain power, not to free Iran but to preserve Islamic extremism through their own fake/puppet opposition. 

Living in misogynist Iran, once I had a discussion with my younger brother about the property that he and my older brother stole from me. My younger brother said it was my older brother who robbed me, not him. I told him when two thieves go to rob a house, the first thief on top of the wall of the house is the one who is visible. No one sees the second thief who is helping the first one climb the wall and break in. Everyone would point at the first as the burglar, but both are guilty. 

The role of the “reformists” in Iran is like the second thief. Most people would point their finger to the hardliners as the killers, but no one see the role of the “reformists” in keeping the hardliners and the regime in power. They used to deceive people that they want democracy, but that overthrowing the regime is wrong and actual reforms should be gradual. 

The “reformists” (a faction of Islamists and leftists inside the revolutionary regime) emerged in the 1980s. They claim to seek to change the system gradually rather than overthrow it. In fact, the emerge of the reformists was to deceive Iranian people and make them hopeful that change is possible. They have been oxygen to the survival of the regime for more than 40 years. The “reformists” and the hardliners/conservatives are the two side of the same coin. I have warned about them endlessly. Its prominent figures were Mohammad Khatami, Mehdi Karoubi, and Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the daughter of Ayatollah Rafsanjani, Faezeh Rafsanjani, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Javad Zarif. 

Iranians were deceived by the reformists for many years. Finally, people understood the reformists are simply wolves in sheep’s clothes. The regime used the reformists whenever it would feel threatened of being overthrown by people. Current President Masoud Pezeshkian is also one of the fake reformists who was selected only because the ayatollahs permitted it.

That is why Iranians are chanting in the streets, “Hardliners, Reformists, The Game Is Over.” It shows they understood the regime’s tactics, and they will not be deceived us the reformists’ tactics anymore. That they are one in the same.

Another slogan echoing throughout Iran is “Death to three corrupt groups: Mullahs (Ayatollahs), Leftists (Reformists) and Mujahed (MEK/NCRI),” three different but no less dangerous groups that have betrayed the Iranian people. They have zero legitimacy among the people. Western leaders must learn from the suffering of the Iranian people for half a century that none of these people can have a role in a future, free Iran. 

The “reformists” are ready to deceive anyone, use any tactics, and side with anyone for their survival. Reading the news about the elimination of the hardliners some speak about the possibility of the “reformist’s” cooperation with the US, Israel, and the West for their survival. 

Not that there are no hardliners left. They should all be eliminated. But if not actively prevented, the “reformists” will be the new hardliners in Iran’s future after the fall of the regime – which really won’t be the fall of the regime but merely shuffling the deck - because their core values are based on the same Islamic ideology. They are a threat to Iran, to the United States, to Israel and the Middle East, and to the West and cannot be allowed to survive.