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The problem with the CIA writing a textbook on “how to destabilize and regime change” is that all their target countries can read it too, and understand fully what evil antics they are up to.

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Iran is me the most beautiful countries to visit. The people are nice, the history is deep but the government is draconian and savage.

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So, the young people and women protesting are CIA agents? Or they were brainwashed or hypnotized by the CIA somehow? I see, yes it makes perfect sense.

The problem with the CIA writing a textbook on “how to destabilize and regime change” is that all their target countries can read it too, and understand fully what evil antics they are up to.

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The mullahs are going to blame "enemies" when their cops gun down crowds in a subway station or ride by on motorcycles shooting protesters. What a detestable lot!

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Iran is me the most beautiful countries to visit. The people are nice, the history is deep but the government is draconian and savage.

I haven't had an opportunity to visit but would love to if things ever change. The Iranian people I know are wonderful people and deserve better than this.

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I don't see how any CIA people can impact tens of thousands of regular Iranians spread all over the country. Care to explain that trick?

This is 90% local, perhaps with "ideas" provided by Iranians who are overseas or lived overseas and are tired of rulers for life being able to overrule voters.

Reads that if a few key sector workers stop working for a month, then the govt will collapse. I'm a little worried in revolutionary changes for govts, since a power vacuum often brings undesirable results for everyone. South America and some of the middle East are examples of what happens when govt changes happen, but without a 10yr plan to replace the existing govt ready, easy to follow and explain to everyone in the country so they have "hope" in the final outcome.

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The dilemma there is, only the elderly people know the era before the Mullah regime. And they’re to old and weak to resist, while the many people from the younger generations know about freedom from hearsay or a few and censored foreign media accessed. In addition, there once was freedom, but as far as I know, also the Shah monarchy was rather repression addicted. So they might think that it’s not worth to fight for change into another similar violent government and prefer to abide, stand and bear the current one, where they know what to expect and where the few free loopholes are to find in daily life.

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For an ACCURATE picture of popular opinion in Iran, visit the University of Maryland's Centre for International and Security Studies.

It's interesting how taking an academic approach, rather than a political one, explains why the predicted collapse just keeps not happening decade after decade.

PS, how many unarmed police and ordinary citizens do you think the protesters (well, because we don't differentiate between civil rights protesters and people trying to violently overthrow a democratically elected government that's how we have to refer to them, because when the Iranian government talks about those trying to overthrow the government we insist that they are talking about the protesters) have killed?

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 I'm a little worried in revolutionary changes for govts, since a power vacuum often brings undesirable results for everyone. South America and some of the middle East are examples of what happens when govt changes happen, but without a 10yr plan to replace the existing govt ready,

That is pretty much how the mullahs came to power in Iran. The Ayatollah Khomeini was living in exile in France and took a flight to Iran as the Shah was being deposed. He and is fellow clerics quickly filled a power vacuum left when the Shah was run out declaring an Islamic republic to the dismay of most Iranians.

This is 90% local, perhaps with "ideas" provided by Iranians who are overseas or lived overseas and are tired of rulers for life being able to overrule voters.

Most if not all Iranian families have relatives living in the US, Canada, Australia or other democratic nations with a free press. They know the truth from their relatives and often from traveling abroad to visit them. Most of those alive in Iran today were born after the mullahs came to power, are not religious and are absolutely tired of the oppression.

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@RichardPierce, there is nothing democratic about the government of Iran. Their elections are a sham. The Guardian Council, which is composed of six members nominated by the Supreme Leader, himself an unappointed cleric, and six members appointed by the head of the judiciary, can and routinely does bar candidates from running for election and has in the past even disqualified candidates after being elected. The Guardian Council only allows hard line Islamist candidates to run for office. Anyone seen as being even a little bit reformist is disqualified and cannot run for office. This is not democracy in any form. Iran is a religious tyranny. Please stop trying to paint it as some sort of democracy when it is not.

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For an ACCURATE picture of popular opinion in Iran

You mean 'relatively ACCURATE'. There's no optics of domestic Iran, just like there's no optics of domestic China, NK etc...no freedom of the press, AND the state control the narratives, multiple layers of it.

Even the IRGC is an army within an army. Economically, the IRGC is a state within a state, and within that are structures that protects the Mullahs, the CIA knows this, the average Iranian knows this, Iraq knows this, everybody knows this. So I would wonder where your theory come from.

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Khamenei should be swinging from a crane.

It surely won't be long now...

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The people who claim that the American government isn't democratic and the people who claim that the Iranian government isn't democratic share a similar mindset.

Ironically, the ones with a better actual arguments are given less credibility.

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This man is immature and regressive and also a nut job. He does beastly things to the people especially women and homosexuals. His attire says it all really, what king of buffoon adorns garb like that these days? No wonder the rest of the world think these types are nincompoop

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The people who claim that the American government isn't democratic and the people who claim that the Iranian government isn't democratic share a similar mindset.

Speak for yourself please. The US has contested elections and there isn't some religious figure deciding who may and who may not run for office. Any yahoo can run for office in the US and the city councils, County boards of supervisors and state legislatures of the nation and the US Congress are testament to this fact.

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