re: Iranian Police are now joining sides with the protesters

of course you would. Filtered with all the proper spin. If you're half intelligent, you can see it's not a government run account, posting all manner of things from street level accounts and almost exclusively the anti gov't perspective.

That's clearly sooooo fake!

- Eurocat (likely)

I don’t care what your israeli website says.

Power vacuum in the Middle East, factions from all over the region will try and seize power. It’s happened over and over.

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Unless there is outside involvement, at least clandestinely, there is no chance the regime is overthrown. The IIRG will kill the leaders and enough of the participants to end the protests.

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Tehran is running out of water. Bullets aren't going to stop desperate people.

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This. People don't seem to be aware of what's going on over there. They have been talking about having to fricking evacuate Tehran, which is a city about 9 million (about 15 mil metropolitan). Because there is literally not enough water anymore and it's getting worse.
And that's the capital.

That type of crisis goes beyond ideology or political leanings, and I don't think the threat of force can work. Taking a bullet is preferable to watching your family starve and dehydrate to death. The option of keeping your head down and hoping to avoid trouble isn't there anymore.

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I don’t care what your israeli website says.

Power vacuum in the Middle East, factions from all over the region will try and seize power. It’s happened over and over.

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I think what people fail to understand about situations like this- the worst case scenario (for the US) for any nation in rebellion is that it turns into Iran (or Cuba, or North Korea). THAT'S the danger.

When one of them collapses, the worst case scenario is that they reform into what they currently are. Anything else is better. Even Iran as a chaotic Wild West is better, because then you don't have an organized state throwing everything they have into fighting and attacking us.

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but the Shaw

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The "Shaw?"

Not to mention inflation has taken off. The Iranian Rial is now 1,450,000 to 1dollar. It was 1,000,000 to 1 dollar in December. An interview with an Iranian pensioner mentioned his monthly pension payment now lasts 10 days. Very few regimes can survive that kind of economic collapse.