Houshang Amir Ahmadi Junta State

On Friday, January 29th, 2021, Houshang Amir Ahmadi (Ph.D.) appeared at Mr. Alireza Meybodi’s program to discuss his theory of having a junta state replaces the Islamic Republic of Iran. 1 His approach has many flaws and lacks success to have a new government system in Iran, representing Iranians’ will and consent to govern Iran and Iranians.

Mr. Amir Ahmadi collaborated with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign minister Mr. Javad Zarif to form the National Iranian American Council as a lobby organization to improve the US’s relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran. He deceived Iranians with the notion of reform. He promised Iranians and foreign dignitaries that there was no need for regime change in Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran, under the leadership of Mullah Mohammad Khatami, will shift from its hardcore policies to policies which are reflecting the will of Iranians and moving Iran toward a civil society. As time passed from 1997 until now (2021), Iran’s theocratic regime remained steadfast in belligerent attitude toward the opposing voices. The rulers in Iran used bullets, torture, and imprisonment to silent the opposing voices.

Currently, Mr. Amir Ahmadi advocates for Iran’s junta system; he claims that Iran has a junta government history. It goes back to Cyrus the Great to the Pahlavi dynasty because the states’ heads were military commanders.

Mr. Amir Ahmadi is misleading Iranians one more time by masquerading facts with his elusive ideas that the monarchy system is the same as the junta system. A monarchy system, political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a single person. The term applies to states in which supreme authority is vested in the monarch. This individual ruler functions as the head of state and achieves his or her position through heredity or electoral system.

A junta form of a state-led by a committee of military leaders, the term junta, means “meeting” or “committee” and originated in the national and local junta organized by the Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s invasion of Spain in 1808. In contemporary times, the junta used to refer to an authoritarian form of the state. An oligarchic military dictatorship characterizes it. It distinguished from other categories of authoritarian rule. Specifically, the junta state is different than strongman autocratic military dictatorships, machine oligarchic party dictatorships, and bossism autocratic party dictatorships.

In conclusion, Mr. Amir Ahmadi intentionally leads the future of Iran toward another disaster to destroy Iran. If he wants Iran to have a bright future, why does he not ask the United Nations to have a referendum for Iran’s form of state?

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