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[Wilf Wolf]

Yep it’s absolutely not a bad thing he is no longer able to destroy so many of his own peoples lives.

But the reality is that he’ll be replaced by someone very similar. It may trigger a popular uprising but that’s unlikely to end well so long as the Republican Guard oppose it which on recent history seems more than probable.

 

[jd1981]

But the reality is that he’ll be replaced by someone very similar. It may trigger a popular uprising but that’s unlikely to end well so long as the Republican Guard oppose it which on recent history seems more than probable.

Yep the only way you’re changing it for those you want in is by heavily funding rebellion forces or physically putting your own troops on the ground.

 

[Tredman]

You also radicalse a whole load of people as no seems to care that the American/Israelis murdered a bunch of school girls too.

 

[jd1981]

You don’t get what you fully want from bombing the crap out of places. You can damage infrastructure and wipe out the top brass but eventually someone else will come back more motivated and with far more anger inside them.
Iran is huge I mean if you drive from its most westerly point to its most easterly it’s the equivalent of driving from London to Bucharest.
Population of 93 million, its vast a big population a good number of whom will be angry and motivated.
Put it this way if you hated the current government but a foreign power bombed the crap out of you telling you it was for your benefit the reaction wouldn’t be welcoming.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

It’s almost as if the USA never learns.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

One man defending his home is worth 10 people paid to invade it.

 

[jd1981]

I think the idea was to kill the man at the top which would lead to mass rebellion and forced regime change from within. They killed an 86 year old man who was probably head state in name but probably had somebody else running things daily. Also how ingrained into Iranian society the regime is also it’s very large and frightening for the population.

 

[Alan]

Khamenei wouldn’t have settled for being a figurehead, I don’t think. I’m not sure anyone would want to be behind the curtain in that way, either; it’s as much a religious position as political, and my instincts say that anyone in power over there would find the idea of making decisions for Khamenei to be somewhat blasphemous.