Hope you're right. If the Iranian regime falls, it will be due to internal forces, facilitated to some degree by external actions. I will take the risk of instability. It is a vile regime, responsible for the deaths and dismemberment of numerous friends and colleagues, so I do take it personally and don't claim to be objective. But I reject the notion of taking detached, objective stances toward regimes that so casually and enthusiastically murder their own people.
Always willing to make a deal my guess is that the T. Rump criminal enterprise will look for opportunities in Iran no matter which way the cookie crumbles.
Hope you're right. If the Iranian regime falls, it will be due to internal forces, facilitated to some degree by external actions. I will take the risk of instability. It is a vile regime, responsible for the deaths and dismemberment of numerous friends and colleagues, so I do take it personally and don't claim to be objective. But I reject the notion of taking detached, objective stances toward regimes that so casually and enthusiastically murder their own people.
Always willing to make a deal my guess is that the T. Rump criminal enterprise will look for opportunities in Iran no matter which way the cookie crumbles.
“Democracy is the worst form of government except for all of the others.”
A peaceful transition of power being a great feature of democracy and completely missing with Iranian transition most likely.
I appreciate the local expertise associated with this post.