Fox World reports: After President Donald Trump suggested this week that Iranians "would fight back" if they had weapons, Iranian dissidents, military analysts and some Republican lawmakers are openly reviving a once-taboo question: should the West move beyond "maximum pressure" on Tehran and actively support armed resistance inside Iran?"They have to have guns. And I think they’re getting some guns. Critics warn that openly discussing armed resistance could endanger protesters, deepen divisions inside the opposition and risk pushing Iran toward civil war.The idea of armed resistance echoes aspects of the Reagan Doctrine, the Cold War-era strategy in which the U.S.
backed anti-Soviet resistance movements around the world, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua."We need to give Iranians the tools now, and they’ll finish the job themselves," Brett Velicovich, founder of Powerus and a former U.S. military and intelligence specialist focused on drone warfare, told Fox News Digital."It’s their time to do something. There has never been a better chance."AS AIRSTRIKES RAIN DOWN ON THE IRANIAN REGIME, CAN A FRACTURED OPPOSITION UNITE TO LEAD IF IT FALLS?Velicovich described the strategy as "Reagan Doctrine 2.0," updated for the age of drones and decentralized warfare."Cheap FPV drones, loitering munitions, and small arms let motivated fighters turn Iran’s streets and mountains into a nightmare for the IRGC," he said.
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"This isn’t fantasy; it’s asymmetric warfare that works."He argued that modern drone technology has fundamentally changed the balance between governments and insurgent or resistance movements."Drones democratize power," Velicovich said. We sent them through the Kurds.
Originally reported by Fox World. This story has been edited and re-presented by BRIC Team.
