They might not defend the regime but they won't like foreign invaders too!
I still remember the joy expressed in 1979!
Regime change may come to Iran without the United States even having to fire a single shot. I am hoping that freedom seeking Iranians will be emboldened by the events in Iraq and take their country back. This also would give them an enourmous sense of pride to have done it without the United States and what a huge message such an event would send to the rest of the middle east. Maybe Im dreaming, but I sure wish it would go down this way.
Sure, and they'll greet our troops with cheers and rose petals, too.
The Revolutionary Guards are pretty enormous and pretty fanatical.
The entire country isn't represented by Tehran College Students.
Opposition groups at times have a tendency to exaggerate how easily a government could be overthrown (Bay of Pigs, anyone?)
On the other hand repressive governments can at times fall with shocking ease.
I'm very skeptical of Iran though.
With Iraq as a perspective, I don't think we can judge one way or the other how Iranians would respond to an attack against the mullahs. It is safe to predict that the unpredictable will occur, to one degree or another. We have to be careful here. If we can foment a revolution from within through special ops, that is our best bet.
I want to believe this, but this is exactly what was said of the Iraqi people.
So why don't they rise up and overthrow their own dictators?
Jeez, most of them will not even provoke an internal attack...I've said it before it's time for the younger Iranians to P!SS or GET OFF the pot
maybe.
but the nyt, cnn, cbs, abc, nbc, npr, etc will defend iran against an american attack.
(/s)
The tide is turning there. The natives are restless. That's why our president brilliantly spoke to the Iranian people in the SOU.
Pray for democracy in Iran.
bump, by the way, are you really a TomCat driver?
I think we ought to have learned by now that dissidents have their own agenda and are not to be trusted. Why we would trust anyone willing to see their home country, despite its bad government, attacked by another country is beyond me.
Keep your head down!!!!
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The people of Iran will not rise up to 'defend the mullahs' they will rise up against foreign invasion of their country.
In either case they will rise up against the US if there is an invasion.
I certainly hope that it doesn't come down to an invasion. Maybe the people will rise up like they did against the Shaw in 1979.
What Middle Eastern country (not counting Israel) was the ONLY one to fill their streets after 9/11 in support of the U.S.?
Yep......Iran.
Iranians aren't Arabs. They are Eurasian, and they are a wonderful, highly educated people. The majority of their country is under the age of 25 and are very, very pro-Western. The average Iranian wants close ties to the West; especially the U.S. Make no mistake.
No, I think this article is dead-on. The oppressive theocracy in Iran is endangered and they know it. There have been MASSIVE riots and demonstrations in Iran against them, not just some college students in Tehran as some poster here averred. Oh, a couple of these huge riots started after soccer games........but that was just an excuse. Next thing you know, hundreds of thousands across the country (millions?) filled the streets in often violent anti-cleric protests. This news was roundly ignored by the MSM, for God only knows what reasons. It is a fact.
They need to know we have their back......and the Iranians need to unseat these mullahs. I think it will happen, sooner rather than later, and I truly believe we will see an alliance and renewed friendship with Iran without our armed forces having to fire a shot if we play it right.