Protests in Iran are gaining a surprise momentum, driven largely by poor workers, in contrast to the 2009 demonstrations by educated liberals. What started as economic gripes against the President Rouhani’s policies has turned into vociferous criticism of the ruling clerics, corruption amongst the elite and the monies being spent on foreign incursions in Syria, Iraq and Yemen with Hezbollah’s help from the Lebanon.
Iran’s pro-active foreign policy is being driven by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) who answer directly to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, not the President. They were set up after 1979 revolution to defend the country’s Islamic system and to provide a counterweight to the regular armed forces. Over the years they have built up a sprawling business empire in oil, gas, telecoms and construction which President Rouhani is attempting to curb in order to revitalise and rebalance the economy.
Established on 5 May 1979, they have an acquisitive Taurus Sun in a no-compromise opposition to Uranus; plus an entrepreneurial Fire Grand Trine, focussed onto a Kite with Mars Mercury Venus in Aries opposition Pluto giving them not only high ambition but also a ruthless edge. They are looking increasingly hemmed in from early 2018 for two years with tr Pluto square the Mars Mercury. If their power is curtailed then it will have a significant impact on the Ayatollah’s position and power.
Brilliant prediction. Today, they assumed responsibility for the recent Boeing 737 tragedy in Teheran, with the January 10 Cancer eclipse square their Mars-Mercury in Aries (!), so they will surely be “hemmed in” under the grand conjunction of 2020.
Everything is parallel to everything in the middle east it seems. The threat to Iran is an army the same way the threat to Israel is an organised army like that of Iran or Hizbollah.
what is definitely not a threat to Israel is a bunch of people fighting like a scattered herd against its well equipped and trained army. I’ve been reading much about that area of the world, and these were Ibrahim Ali Pasha’s words to Palestinian farmers, when he tried to conscript them into his army at that time. They refused, and it did not go well for them from there.
All the more reason to make me wonder, what is Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi’s fate? Jailing a child in an occupied land for slapping back a soldier who was at her house, is quite a new low in the history of that conflict. All I found out is her birthday is on January 31 2001, numerology wise a 4 and an 8 is hardly an easy fate at all.
I wonder what astrology says if you ever have the time, because i do hope there is good news for the girl ever since I’ve read about her.