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The Iranian RIM Job is Decadent and Depraved
The Iranian conflict is less a war and more a recursive farce, an ongoing bureaucratic hallucination staged by men who long ago forgot what game they were playing. It is not a clean clash of ideologies or borders. It is a horse race where the jockeys ride each other, the horses are drugged, and the bettors are betting against their own house.
This is the Recursive Infiltration Model, or RIM job.
The RIM describes a system of power where infiltrators embed themselves within organizations that are already covert, secretive, or subversive. It is the espionage equivalent of fractal geometry: spies inside spies, movements within movements, and agents so deeply embedded they no longer know whose game they’re playing.
| Level | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Single infiltration | One group embeds into another for information/control | CIA agents inside Iran's opposition groups |
| Double infiltration | Infiltrator joins a group that is itself a covert project | Mossad operatives posing as Iranian dissidents, co-opted by IRGC |
| Triple infiltration | Actor influences multiple covert layers simultaneously | IRGC asset feeding disinfo to CIA through a Mossad-linked activist |
In RIM logic, truth is expendable, loyalty is relative, and disorientation is the product, not the failure. Every actor is acting for someone else, or believes they are, until they aren’t.
| Year | Event | Infiltration Layers |
|---|---|---|
| 1953 | CIA/MI6 topple Mossadegh in Iran | Anglo-American coup becomes root paranoia |
| 1979 | Islamic Revolution | Clerics co-opted secular revolutionaries, purged them |
| 1980s | Mossad supports Hamas | To fracture the secular PLO, Israel backs Islamists |
| 2000s | CIA supports Iranian dissidents | Mossad also supports them; IRGC infiltrates both |
| 2010 | Stuxnet & Flame cyberattacks | US-Israel codebase; Iran targets collaborators |
| 2020s | IRGC militia target US allies | Some US allies are also Iranian informants |
Like a Vonnegut novel or a Kafka hearing, everyone is pretending to understand what’s happening, but the script has been edited too many times, and the lead actors no longer know their lines.
| Trait | Description |
|---|---|
| Ideological Ambiguity | Groups publicly state one thing, privately do another |
| Cross-Network Memberships | Agents belong to multiple covert groups, often unknowingly |
| Feedback Loops | Infiltrators influence policy that creates new enemies to infiltrate |
| Recursive Deception | Each layer lies to the one above and below |
| Meta-Loyalty | Allegiance may be to an unseen "fifth network" or self-interest |
Imagine a horse race where each horse is being ridden by a jockey with a different trainer's instructions, each betting against the horse they are riding, while an announcer calls the wrong race altogether.
| Name | Role | RIM Context |
|---|---|---|
| Kermit Roosevelt Jr. | CIA architect of 1953 coup | Embedded Anglo-American interference |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | Islamic leader of 1979 revolution | Co-opted revolution, purged allies |
| Eli Cohen | Israeli spy in Syria | Triple identity infiltration |
| Qasem Soleimani | IRGC Quds Force commander | Jockeyed multiple proxy conflicts until droned in Baghdad |
| Various "Dissidents" | Funded by CIA, Mossad, EU | Possibly monitored by IRGC or FSB proxies |
A veritable mind-bending bureaucratic absurdity.
This is a recursive theater. The show never ends, the actors change, but the script remains a riddle.
"The race is never over. The track folds in on itself. The horses are ghosts, the jockeys whispers. And somewhere, in the middle of the chaos, the house collects its chips."
The Iranian conflict is not about winning. It is about sustaining looped influence. The longer the loop exists, the more each side can:
This is not the Middle East as you read about in textbooks. This is the Middle East as recursive theater. A comedy for bureaucrats. A tragedy for civilians. An algorithm of disorder for investors and warmongers.
So laugh, cry, or scream into the mirror. The RIM job continues, endlessly, absurdly, profitably.