“Those who attempt to level, never equalize." ... "The levelers, therefore, only change and pervert the natural order of things; ” - Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
The foreign minister of the Iranian Mullahs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has been visiting the Islamist regime's allies in the region: Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, and today arrived in Cuba "to confer with Cuban officials on issues of mutual interest."
 |
| Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian meets President Diaz-Canel |
He met with Raul Castro's hand-picked president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, this afternoon.
Both Iran and Cuba are on the U.S. State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism. Havana has played a key role in training torturers and soldiers to consolidate the dictatorships in both Nicaragua and Venezuela.
 |
| Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian meets President Nicolas Maduro |
Havana's relationship with Tehran commenced in 1979, and both share a visceral anti-Americanism that unites their different revolutionary ideologies of Communism and Islamism.
All these regimes carried out revolutions promising equality, but delivered oppression, corruption, and a new ruling class over a poorer populace.
 |
| Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian meets President Daniel Ortega |
This is a revolutionary subset of what Anne Applebaum calls "Autocracy Inc" that "unlike military or political alliances from other times and places, the members of this group don’t operate like a bloc, but rather like an agglomeration of companies."
Posts
