Strategies then didn't work—and neither will they with Iran today, a modern day embodiment of an arcade game we loved so much. What once brought us butterflies, now fills us with fear. Where will the Iranian Regime’s IRGC Al-Quds Force, loyal only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, pop up its head next?
Remember that game at the arcade when you were a kid? A “mole” would pop its head up from any of 5 holes, and you had smash it on the head, and push it back down before it reared its head through another hole. You know exactly what game I’m talking about.
You’d watch the older players before you, as some of them racked-up hundreds of tickets to exchange for prizes. You’d stand there, strategizing your attack—after all, you needed a plan of action too, if you wanted to get as many tickets. But the mole was always one step ahead…
Strategies then didn't work—and neither will they with Iran today, a modern day embodiment of an arcade game we loved so much. What once brought us butterflies, now fills us with fear. Where will the Iranian Regime’s IRGC Al-Quds Force, loyal only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, pop up its head next?
Al-Quds Commander Qassem Soleimani, once a man who avoided public and cameras for security purposes, has now been spotted throughout the region. Charged with leading the Iranian Regime’s conquest for regional hegemony, news of his head-rearing from Lebanon, to Syria, to Iraq and beyond means only one thing--
Iran has its sights set on spreading its Shiite influence—and it’s always a step ahead of the West. And not only in the Middle East, but throughout Latin America, too.
Iran is now fighting proxy wars -- fighting for influence in a rocky, unstable post-Arab Spring world. Yemen, Lebanon, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza, Syria, Iraq and beyond have all been plagued by the sectarian warfare propelled, funded and advised by Soleimani and his Al-Quds gang. Active, strategic and ideological, Iran is slowly but surely finding influence in what were once staunchly Arab and Sunni strongholds throughout the Middle East.
Forcing the West into a reactive position, Soleimani and the Iranian Regime, like the mole in the game, are calling the shots. If you’re fast, focused and organized, you might be able to whack the mole just as it pops up. But wait even a split-second too long, and the mole will have already moved on, and you've already lost points. Unfortunately, in the battlegrounds of the Shiite Expansionism, points are a lot more serious than arcade tickets. And there is no “round 2.”
The longer the West waits to see what the Iran Regime has up its sleeve, and if the Regime can be ‘reasoned’ with, the further they get ahead. It’s time we stop playing their game.