Iran: “Killing Larijani strengthened the regime”, according to Bernard Hourcade

Iran: “Killing Larijani strengthened the regime”, according to Bernard Hourcade

ByMuhammad

The geographer and specialist on Iran Bernard Hourcaderesearch director at CNRSstrongly criticized the idea of ​​“discriminated” military strikes against the Islamic Republic, denouncing LCI “a kind of scandalous lie”. According to him, the scenarios mentioned actually consist of “bombing the city, the sites, the factories”, directly targeting “the centers of power, the ministries, the head of state”, which would amount to “demolishing the entire country”, with inevitable “collateral damage”.

These statements shake up a narrative widely relayed in certain media, which presents these strikes as targeted and controlled. A reading that the researcher explicitly calls into question. Based on maps published by theINSShe believes that the scale of the designated targets confirms this logic of generalized destruction.

For the researcher, such an attack would paradoxically strengthen the Iranian regime. “Iran is a very old nation, with very strong national unity,” he underlines, adding that any external aggression tends to provoke a “national consensus” and to mobilize all of the country’s forces, from the Revolutionary Guards to the Basij militias. Bernard Hourcade finally recalls the precedent of the 1979 revolution led by Khomeinithen the Iran-Iraq war, which had already led to a convergence between nationalism and Islamism in the face of an external threat.

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