SidewalkDawg

Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we’re not back by dawn… call the president.

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This guy's family led a brutal dictatorship that led to the 1979 revolution.

Why would we ever think using him as a figurehead is smart?

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SAVAK was pretty brutal by western standards. But keep in mind that the Shah was trying to keep a very fragmented country together. He was king of a large religiously diverse population which had weak democratic instiatuions. SAVAK did bad things, but pale in comparison to the islamic regime currently in power.

Maybe add "rumor" to your title? I dont understand why people like to sensationalize on a forum where they dont get any money for clicks.

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Phase 1: destroy the IRGC's ability to attack outside of its country. 90ish% complete.

Phase 2: destroy the IRGC's infrastructure so they have no way to effectively manage anything. 90ish% complete. Probably and underestimate.

Phase 3: Kill the IRGC foot soldiers so that they flee and desert in fear of their lives. Currently underway.

Phase 4: Enable groups within Iran to hunt down the IRGC or fight those that refuse to surrender or flee.

Phase 5: Bring in the new Iranian leaders (former over thrown Royal family.

Other than special ops no boots on the ground needed by us.

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This is pretty much how I see this playing out.

Reza Pahlavi doens't go from exile prince in the background and an outspoken opponent of forced regime change in Iran to calling for regime change and asking his people to wait for his "Call".

This has all the hallmarks of a US/Israel coordinated attempt at regime change. Reza has to appear independent and organically selected by the Iranians for this to work, that is why Trump hasn't endorsed him as the choice. Reza still has to do his part, which is mobilize the support of the Iranians in Iran to his cause.

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Mojtaba Khamenei, the newly appointed Supreme Leader of Iran, suffered a fractured foot, a bruise around his left eye, as well as minor lacerations to his face, after a failed assassination attempt on the first day of the U.S. and Israel’s bombardment campaign against Tehran, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.

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That's interesting framing "Failed assassaination attempt". What about the other people successfully killed in the "Attempt" like the Former Ayatollah Khamenei?

Judd Hirsch saving Iran wasnt on my bingo card

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We’re not going to have to.

Our unrelenting aerial assault combined with Israel and the Mossad is more than enough.

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Infrastructure isn't people. The strikes have been very effective, but if you want real change in Iran someone is going to have to put boots on the ground. I would hope in a few days we see a ramp down in airstrikes and an "organic" Iranian people's uprising.

This is the situation that requires the Iranian people to rise up and start removing these people.

US/Israel need to finish their campaign of targeting mass gatherings, they have already destroyed the leadership. If Reza Pahlavi has any truth to his claim that the people want him, THIS is the time for him to prove it.

The Iranians MUST be the ones to do this. I hope Pahlavi is prepared with an organized ground force.

Burma didn't elect you Mitch. Maybe have some aspirations for the people of your own country.

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I could be wrong,

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I think you are right. He has assumed a position of authority among the diaspora, assembled a transition government, and has recently told the Iranian people that the next time his cabinet is together it will be in Iran.

He is clearly being propped up by either the US or Isreal and it makes sense. He would be a fierce ally to both countries.

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Are the leaders even Iranian?

Clearly I’m ignorant as hell to what’s going on over there, but the impression folks put off is this regime one day took over a normal, peaceful people who don’t want to be ruled by evil retarded Muslims.

How’d that happen? The world just lets that type of thing happen?

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Ayatollah Khamenei was born in Iran, so was their current President Pezeshkian.

The Islamic revolution that occured in '79 was a complex coordinated effort by many different factions. Khomeini was propped up as a force for change away from the "oppressive" leadership of Pahlavi. In reality the religious conservatives used the revolutionaries (useful idiots of the MEK) to overthrow the Pahlavi government, and once in power, they consolidated their grip and turn Iran into a Theorcracy.