Protests abound in many of the worlds capitols with regard to the squashing of basic rights of humankind in Iran. The question that comes foremost in my mind is weather Iranian nationals around the word will conscript a fighting force and retake their homeland in the name of Freedom and Democracy? Let's not kid ourselves here. The hardliners are not going to back off without a fight--to the death if need be. Nonviolent protest are fine-so long as your adversary has a civilized conscience. If your adversary is maniacal and tyrannical you can peacefully engage in civil disobedience as your throat is being slit. In the very least I believe covert arm shipments into Iran to arm a counter revolutionary army would at least give this new movement a fighting chance.
Best if you know the temperament of the dog. There's no guarantee that if you have a hand in feeding the overthrow, it won't get bitten at a later time. Which, for some reason in the Mid-East, seems to happen over and over and over...
keep dreaming, america initiates alot of projects but never completes any, let alone completing and succeeding in them
The mullahs will use any means neccessary to remain in power. This is starting to look real ugly. New generation of Iranians apparently fed up with the so-called theocracy, which is nothing more than a fascist state. Since the 1979 overthrow of the Shah, the level of terrorism has risen in the Middle East and this gov't is to blame for a lot of it. Khomeini calling US the great satan and so forth. Good luck to the ordinary Iranian.