Iranian Students Trash British Embassy!

In an eerie reprise of the Iranian seizure of the American Embassy in 1979, a frenzied mob of Iranian “students” attacked the British embassy in Tehran.  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204449804577067912218983018.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

What do you think the chances are that this is an Occupy Wall Street type spontaneous outpouring of anti-British sentiment?  Try “Zero”!  The “students” were actually the youth wing of a vast national thuggery called the basij militia. Who, exactly, in the Iranian power structure sent the thugs over the wall while the police looked on is not yet clear. The Iranian power structure is riven with political intrigue.  Iran’s  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is under attack by Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khameni.  What better time, then, to focus internal anger on a foreign enemy, and for Ahmadinejad or his hard line opponents to regain the upper hand? 

What is clear is that Iran will be the biggest loser if the murderous Assad regime in Syria falls, heightening both its political isolation and its paranoia. This faux incident could be the beginning of a wave of externally directed political aggression against the West.  Fasten your seatbelts.  We might see an attempted re-ignition of the Iranian revolution focused in external enemies, accelerating instability in the Middle East.