I’ve said this before but my sense is that if you asked Iranians if tomorrow they could have a secular and *accountable* government that most would be prefer not to have an Islamic government that is not held accountable in any meaningful way. But...— Arash Karami (@thekarami) January 11, 2020
... would they be willing to risk their life for such a change in a revolution or dragged out civil war - I don’t think so. My guess is deep down inside most hope that these sporadic protests that are in the thousands somehow lead to structural change without major costs.— Arash Karami (@thekarami) January 11, 2020
what no one wants to ask, or is not asking openly, is how do we go from protests and bloodshed to a representative government that is accountable to its citizens? It’s up to Iranians to ask this becuase this is not the priority for the US, which only wants a complaint state.— Arash Karami (@thekarami) January 11, 2020
lol monarchists aren’t going to leave sunny southern CA in order to run a state as dysfunctional as Iran. If the clerics lose grip it will be the armed groups who take over, whether IRGC (under a diff name) or separatists https://t.co/U6FvMhCR2I— Arash Karami (@thekarami) January 11, 2020
what no one wants to ask, or is not asking openly, is how do we go from protests and bloodshed to a representative government that is accountable to its citizens? It’s up to Iranians to ask this becuase this is not the priority for the US, which only wants a complaint state.— Arash Karami (@thekarami) January 11, 2020
I recall that the Shaw was taken out with a protest that began with the college students, inspired by Soviet infiltration. Kinda like the Vietnam War protest began with the same, with the same folks inspiring them