Iran’s regime is neither sustainable nor reformable
Nicola Bowers, lawyer, writer and one of the famous French analysts, in an article he published in Figaro newspaper on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic government of Iran, wrote that the Islamic Republic of Iran is neither sustainable nor reformable. He believes that the Islamic government of Iran has exposed the impasses of political Islam more than anything else.
In her commentary, Nicola Bowers states that the occupation of Iraq by the US army and then the rise of the ISIS group helped the Islamic Republic of Iran to expand its influence in the region for a while. However, this development of influence came at a heavy cost for Iran and especially for the people of this country.
The French author has written that all the great capacities of Iran for economic development inside have been destroyed and the reason for this is the usurpation of oil revenues by the clerics, the domination of the Revolutionary Guards over all economic activities, widespread corruption and the environmental disaster that has destroyed all of Iran’s capabilities for The exit from the deadlock has been analyzed.
Nicola Bowers has stated that the US sanctions have put the last bullet to these capacities. According to the French commentator, since the establishment of the Islamic regime in Iran, the country’s gross domestic product has decreased to less than 50% of Turkey’s gross domestic product, while at the threshold of the Islamic Revolution, Iran’s gross domestic product was 26% more than Turkey’s gross domestic product. According to Nicola Bowers, today South Korea’s economy is fourteen times bigger than Iran’s economy, while in 1357, Iran’s economy was 39% stronger than South Korea’s economy.
Referring to the widespread poverty in Iran, the French writer adds: 40% of Iranian people live on less than ten dollars a day. One fifth of the active population of this country is unemployed, and unemployment includes 50% of Iran’s youth, as a result of which 125,000 young Iranian graduates leave their country every year.
Economic stagnation and poverty, according to Nicola Bowers, is the main cause of social instability and the prevalence of non-stop protests and strikes in the country. According to the French writer, large sections of Iranian people from different social groups and classes have joined the ranks of the dissidents, so that even the most conservative sections of the society have changed their religion as a sign of protest and sometimes convert to Zoroastrianism.
Nicola Bowers adds that the ideology of the Islamic Revolution is dead and continues to survive only with the help of repression and hatred of America. Nicola Bowers says: In the end, the Iranian revolution confirms the impasse of political Islam. He believes that the religious regime that emerged from this revolution has enriched the clergy and bankrupted the people of Iran. “Bavars” emphasizes that the increase in Iran’s military budget, which reaches 16 billion dollars, as well as the regional expansionism of the Islamic government, are now the most important obstacles to economic development and the source of the continuation and deepening of poverty in this country. Nicola Bowers has further concluded that “just like the Soviet Union, the mullahs’ regime in Iran is ultimately neither sustainable nor reformable.
Nikla Bowers – lawyer and journalist – Figaro – February 17, 2019
Translated from Million Iran website
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