Well, the new government will need them so I hope the crews (air and ground) keep their heads down when the ayatollahs start to fall... because I don't think that they will go gently from the positions of power. There are probably still guys in Pasdaran who consider ability to operate something like an airplane as prima facie evidence of apostasy.
But I think now it is a question of when rather than if.
And that raises the interesting question of what comes next?
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
IRIAF ( former IIAF ) is a small scale force of the USAF.
All officers have been trained here, in the US on our AF Bases. No worries in time of uprising.