I hope you’re right. But I’m old enough to recall when the Shah was re-installed by the CIA in 1979 and the prevailing opinion then was that fundamentalists didn’t have a chance against Phalavi. Yet they prevailed because westerners don’t understand that middle easterners have more loyalty to their religion, sect and tribes than they do to political boundaries and politicians. The westernized Iranians are too few in number to prevail over the Mullahs and their followers.
“I’m old enough to recall when the Shah was re-installed by the CIA in 1979”
The Shah fled Iran in Jan 1979, and never returned. There was never a reinstallation. He died just over a year later.