As long as the mullahs don’t get replaced with new mullahs.
The Mullahs are only a problem when they’re enabled, financially and otherwise, by the anti-American elites in the City of London.
After those strings are cut, the mullahs will be reduced to the point where they pose a threat only to the local farm animals. Goats, camels, you get the picture.
I think that what is left of Iran can have mullahs, too, if it wants to. If Iran wants to live in the 7th Century, it should be free to.
I view Iran under the Shah as a US experiment to counter Soviet Union incursion into the region. The Soviets were busy flooding Egypt’s past and selling weapons to Iraq, so the US sold F15s to the Shah. The Shah leaned toward the West and Tehran was a center of Western learning where women could walk around more freely than anywhere in the Middle East.
Those days are all in the past, now. The Iranians who liked the freedoms of the West, mostly, left. Only the nuclear physicists remain. The Soviet Union is gone and Russia has problems on its own doorstep.
The world may be a century in recovering from the collapse of the Soviet Union. There are supporters in the West who wish it were back, but the actions of the West to contain it may be long in recovery as well. America is paying the price, finally, in Iran. It will pay the price in China, as well.
“Meet the new Mullah
Same as the old Mullah”