But President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, whose second and final term ends in August 2013, belongs to a nationalist current which wants
the theocracy to end.
All along since 1980, MeK has demanded the toppling of
the theocracy.
This is despite a general awareness in Iran of the fact that the ultimate alternative to such a pact could be the end of
the theocracy.
But powerful US lobbyists had just passed legislation making all the American sanctions much tougher and begun a campaign for the US to contain Iran to the extent of forcing
the theocracy to stop all work on its nuclear plan and axis of control in the Greater Middle East (GME).
Assad's Shi'ite regime is the most vital element of Iran's axis, providing Tehran with sectarian and geo-strategic bridges for
the theocracy to reach its Lebanese Shi'ite unit Hizbullah and key allies in the Mediterranean, as well as other parts of the GME.
The behaviour of the Safawi extremists has been added to Iran's list of antagonists whose strike resources, combined with those of the US Congress and the powerful Jewish lobby in Washington, are far beyond the means of
the theocracy which Israel describes as the world's main source of terrorism.
Now
the theocracy is having a dangerously escalated confrontation between Tehran and Riyadh - the latter heading the Sunni front in a Muslim world of over 1.
The Imam's successor, he says, then a mid-ranking Hujjat ul-Islam Ali Khamenei, has since becoming
the theocracy's "Supreme Leader" with a hurriedly-assumed title of "Ayatullah" gradually "destroyed the essence of the republic" and turned
the theocracy into a "Stalinist/Nazi dictatorship" based on Safawism.
His comments were an indication that the first poll since his disputed 2009 re-election could turn into a big challenge for
the theocracy and Khamenei as he continued to defy his powerful foes.
The Arabs of Iran's petroleum- and water-rich Arabistan (Khuzestan) accuse
the theocracy of racial discrimination and of diverting their Karun River - which they call the source of great civilisations - to Isfahan.
The nationalist current wants to see
the theocracy end.
Assad's regime is the most vital element of Iran's axis, providing Tehran with sectarian and geo-strategic bridges for
the theocracy to reach its Lebanese Shi'ite unit Hizbullah and key allies in the Mediterranean, as well as other parts of the GME.
