Manufacturing such events is consistent with pretty much this entire story for months. There is a seeming desperation for somehow to get regime change and have a country that is 95% Shiite reject its religious leadership.
If it does not happen, the obvious maneuver is to pretend that it did.
Nominally shiite. Many are agnostic, but play along out of a sense of self preservation.
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the Ayatollah of rock and rolla doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Hope he is turning to pus.