“We neither want the Shah nor the supreme leader; neither bad or worse!”
Of course they don’t want a Shah. Do you want a King? Iranians aren’t lazy shiftless ignorant Saudis.
They want to go back to the early 50s when they had a new elected government. But that government believed it had a say in its oil. The Brits believed all of Iran’s oil was permanently Brit and only Brit. Any move to own their own resources taken at Brit gun point was labeled communism. So we launched operation Ajax and overthrew the government and installed a monarchy. The nut shocking torturing Shah. The CIA now admits we did this on behalf of England and released the records.
The aren’t aching for a monarch. They want normal sane elected leaders.