News from Mordor: Rising star Kazemi, warlord of the
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Council, died along with his
intelligence chief in the crash of a small aircraft in bad weather
near Tehran Airport.
Significance? Kazemi and his staff were intimates of the
firebrand President Ahmadinejad, who is a veteran op for the IRGC.
Think of the two as Stalin and Trotsky to the demi-Lenin in
Ayatollah Khamenei. Now Trotsky is dead, by accident, by design --
no matter, the result will be a vacuum in power that Ahmadinejad
will fill with Semtex.
At the same time, the IRGC is the epicenter and funding
authority of asymmetrical warfare on the planet, sometimes call
state-sponsored terrorism. Al Q and HizbAllah both had good
relations with Kazemi and his now charred staff. The bad-bad boys
will take it hard that their off-budget emergency requests now go
to new taloned-hands.
Watch for more concentration of toadies in the days ahead, all
power to the mouth of Mordor, Ahmadinejad, who shows talent to
climb to the role of the 21st century's first great
Sauron malevolence.
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