Inferno on Middle East and insane echoes of the war in the propaganda of the ruling party in Serbia - that is the title topic of the new "Time" which is on newsstands from this Thursday (March 5).
This is probably the first war ever in which the first "bullet" killed the first man of the regime, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. When it happened, on Saturday (February 28), the big question is whether Iran posed a direct threat to Israel and the US.
"Some see the reason for the attack precisely in the fact that the USA and Israel knew that Iran was weakened after years of sanctions, especially after last year's war and mass January protests, and that they now have the best chance for a quick victory," writes Maja Vasić-Nikolić in the introductory text.
He quotes an Iranian teacher, who was among thousands of people in Tehran who gathered to mourn Khamenei. "I can't be happy because I don't know what will happen to our country. We saw what happened in Iraq - chaos and bloodshed. I would prefer the Islamic Republic to something like that happening here."
The regime will survive, but what kind?
In a major analysis for "Vreme", Boško Jakšić, who reported from Iran during the Islamic Revolution 47 years ago, writes that the USA and Israel prepared everything - targets, weapons, propaganda.
"Only one thing is missing: the consent of the Iranians to change their regime. Under the bombs, the militant duo is unlikely to get it. They had better remember Afghanistan and Iraq, but superior power and a sense of hubris do not allow Trump and Netanyahu to think rationally."
Jakšić assesses that prolonged military pressure, losses and destruction, economic troubles and internal rivalries will perhaps weaken the regime in Tehran and will certainly bring it to the question of what compromises it can accept.
"The Islamic Republic will most likely survive, but it will have to change," the article says.
Thank Vučić that we are not Iran
In the editorial, Filip Švarm deals with strange echoes in Serbia. The head of the progressive parliamentary group, Milenko Jovanov, said that, unlike the alleged 30.000 dead in the recent unrest in Iran, no one was killed during the protests in Serbia thanks to President Vučić.
"Jovanov's statement is not just an outburst of half-heartedness of the progressive baron of a pagan language. On the contrary, it is a higher truth. And that is that the regime has reduced its policy to repression so much that it has almost started killing," writes Shvarm.
"Everything else is there: secret service factions gone wild, police brutality normalized, gangs off the hook, a judiciary on ventilators..."
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