The flaw is that we haven’t armed the dissidents. The regime’s soldiers have guns and the civilians don’t. The boots on the ground we need to overthrow the regime could be Iran’s ethnic groups.

I don’t think that Israel and the US really understand that Tehran controls Iran only because Tehran has a monopoly on armed force. If they did, they would now be smuggling large amounts of arms and munitions into Iran to arm the varied ethnic groups of Iran. Ethnic groups, other than the Persian majority, are about 45% of Iran’s population, and most of them have cultural, religious and ideological differences with Tehran.........

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