(Pajamas Media) Michael Ledeen - There is still no end to the bazaar strike in Iran. The major natural gas pipeline between Iran and Turkey was sabotaged. There was a serious fire at the old petrochemical plant on Kharg Island, the central point from which Iranian crude oil is exported. The electrical grid in and around Tehran has crashed many times in recent weeks. There have been repeated purges in the ranks of the Revolutionary Guards, and the supreme commander, Gen. Jafari, publicly stated that many senior officers had actively sided with the opposition, another signpost along the death spiral of the Islamic Republic.
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