Agreed……but no popular uprising?
As long as there’s a chance of being gunned-down, they should stay inside as they were told.
The popular uprising was largely manufactured by Mossad. The Israelis said it openly. It was supported by the propaganda machine. 30,000 dead has no primary source, it was planted in dozens of papers all at once, all referring to other papers. We fluffed up the Shah’s playboy son and had him ready to send in. The Iranians cut off their internet and cell service. Only a few people with Starlink have been getting coms and an occasional landline. So there is no communication method to get people out into the streets if they were so inclined.
Add in constant assassinations and US/Israeli bombing... things like the double tap on the girls school, and Iranian security forces in a bad mood, and there is no take over coming.
A lot of this was a “fake it till you make it” regime change on the part of Trump and NetanYAYhoo. Trump is fairly gullible and they convinced him they were a day or two from a bomb, and that this would go like Venezuela. He fell for it.
I thing that using cell phones to help Israel target IRGC operators is a good strategy, especially for a disarmed population.
As Solzhenitsyn wrote in “The Gulag Archipelago”:
“…what would things have been like if, every time the agents… came out at night to make an arrest, people had been unsure whether they would return alive…?”
The Persians have taken this to heart..
Iran has no qualms about killing their own.