The Iranian question and the crisis of secular republics

Once again, the United States is trying to “solve” political issues by pulling out a gun, and we already know the results in Libya, Iraq, Syria, and Yugoslavia.

They continue to forget about that political issues are resolved politically.

Iran is once again a case in point. Regime change in the region will affect not only Iran but the entire Middle East, since the issue is the resurgence of Islamism as a political and strong religious force, and this is irreversible.

If the Shiite regime falls, Iran would possible disintegrate because the country has no national alternatives to a possible return to the old Shah secular regime.

Thus, the Iranian national question has evolved into this religious state as a Muslim aspiration that is advancing throughout the world in relation to their secular past of dictatorships Just like Saddam and Gaddafi.

It does indeed exist a Muslim religious resurgence that acknowledges that their secular past of military dictatorships has failed.

If the United States pushes the issue of the Iranian regime change, and the country falls apart Just like Libya, Iraq, and Syria, and this current situation could change from Iran to the entire Middle East, including all of Africa, where these same militaristic regimes have failed because their lack of national identity, and this policial void in Africa is being rapidly filled by the resurgence of Islamism from Nigeria to Mozambique.

The conclusion is crystal clear: the United States overthrows the Iranian regime and the wave of Islam’s resurgence expands as an essentially Arab political component, exhausted by the eternal colonialism to which they have been subjected since the Ottoman Empire.

In the end, the issue is the moral and ethical bankruptcy of the militarized secular republics of the post-1945 era, with little political appeal, whose space of ethical and moral credibility is rapidly being occupied by the resurgence of the Islamic faith from África to Middle East towards Asia, against which, Christianity can do little since they have been totally incorporated and absorbed into the secular concepts of Western and “Christian” militarism without much of a faith.

The question then is if Iranians may lead the Islamic resurgence into the Middle East versus How Arab expansion towards Africa, will successfully rebuild an Arab Islamic nation where secular republics have failed.

Prof. Ricardo Gomes Rodrigues, Feburary 5 , 2026