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”Many of the Iranian opposition figures I have talked to have
indicated that if Syria (Assad) falls, Iran will follow.”

Farid Ghadry. http://www.europenews.dk/en/node/44028

Starting with the Tunesian fruit-seller Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-
burning on 17 December 2010 and ensuing death on 5 January 2011¸ the
Arab revolutions have now moved in quick succession from Tunisia to
Libya, from Libya to Egypt, and from Egypt to Syria. This wave-like
process called revolutionary mimesis, a deliberately adapted imitation
of the preceding revolutions, has been described in depth by the
American revolution theorist Eric Selbin in the book ’Revolution,
Rebellion, Resistance’ issued in 2010.

The undersigned can think of three topical questions bound up with the
concept of mimesis at the present moment:

Where, when and how will this sweeping, mimetic revolutionary process
stop ?

It appears from Farid Ghadry’s contribution quoted above that he
counts on a fairly unrestrained, further propagation of the
revolutionary wave into Iran if Assad and Syria should “fall”. That
depends, however. The deliberation involved in the mimetic process
could have another purpose and outcome than revolution. In other
words: also the Ayatollahs in Tehran see it coming, but they do not
want to facilitate the progress of the revolutionary wave, they want
to stop it.

When and how would they try to do that ? The short reply is: now, and
there is no way they can stop it.

On second thought, however, there might be a window of opportunity for
the leaders of Iran to postpone or divert the revolutionary process
exactly now, before the wave has reached the shores of Iran, which
would otherwise soon be engulfed too.

This window of opportunity involves introducing an item on the Middle-
East agenda which could focus even more attention, bind more mental
and political energy than revolution.

What could that item be ? I cannot think of any other possibility than
war. And for the nuclear arms-possessing Iran, this means nuclear war.

With Israel, who else ?

Now, the political and military leadership of such a great country as
Iran are of course not stupid. They are quite aware that nuclear war
will mean their own destruction. But the Iranian theoretical physical
scientists and military analysts are also aware of another fact: it
will n-o-t mean their own definitive destruction – owing to the
theoretical-physical peculiarity of time-reversal bound up with a
global nuclear war within a short span of time. Nor will it result in
the final destruction of Israel, only a temporary one. Global time-
reversal is of course the modern expression for the Apocalypse.

Then, where is the point for the leadership of Iran to start a nuclear
war ? Maybe there is none, but there is a chance that the enormous
amount of confusion and distraction bound up with Doomsday will
overrule and exhaust the residual potential of a revolutionary wave
arriving at Iran.

Besides, Doomsday and the subsequent Revelation will generate a new
mimetic revolutionary wave, this time engulfing the Northern
electromagnetic mind control dictatorships in North America, Europe,
Russia and East Asia.

It is very difficult, at the present moment, to assess whether this
new wave will have any interference with or impact on the residual
revolutionary potential of the first Arabic wave, and so in the chaos
and confusion after Doomsday there may be a possibility for the
leaders of Iran to steer their country out of the trouble. Personally,
I don’t think they will succeed, but I cannot rule out the
possibility.

We can say that the the simple spillover into Iran of the Syrian
revolution, which seems a matter of course to some observers, may not
just be plain sailing, in case a nuclear war is inserted, before the
spillover has had a chance to take its beginning.

Steen Hjortsoe,
Copenhagen