Nearly half a century has passed.
The tables have grown smaller, pockets emptier, and the people once called the owners of the revolution have been bent further and further under the weight of economic hardship.
Yet beyond Iran’s borders, there has always been money for the regime’s causes, for missiles, for war, for proxy forces, for Hezbollah, and even for rebuilding the ruins of Lebanon.
And today, it has reached the point where, on the regime’s own television, someone can say without the slightest shame:
“Let southern Iran be sacrificed for southern Lebanon.”
Perhaps this is the most honest promise the Islamic Republic has ever made, a promise delivered more than forty years too late.
