(National Security Journal) Michael Rubin - Two years ago, Mahsa Amini, 22, an Iranian Kurdish woman, was beaten to death in custody after being arrested for allegedly violating the Iranian regime's strict dress code. Outrage exploded across Iran as millions of women and their male supporters poured into the streets in the largest and most sustained protests ever in the Islamic Republic. Because the regime worried that some of their own security forces would not fire indiscriminately on Iranian schoolgirls, they allegedly imported Lebanese Hizbullah to do their dirty work and reinforce Iran's mechanism of repression. Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, a post that a Quds Force general always fills, is now blind in one eye after the systematic explosion of Hizbullah pagers on Sep. 17. Ordinary Iranians look at a Hizbullah member blinded in one eye as a job half done, and a Hizbullah member completely blind as appropriate vengeance for what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its proxies did to them. The writer, a former Pentagon official, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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