[Marine_Uncle]

As FARS so ably indicates, this whole mess is not going to be hardly possible to correct. And with no solid opposing factions that represent a real westernized set of ideals, it is impossible to form a sufficient majority that are willing to shed their blood to physically kill the religious leadership as well as the Republican Guard.
Only the regular army could have the ability, pledge their lives and their fortitude in essence to dislodge this deep rooted pestilence they live with on a daily basis.
A total revolution sponsored and backed by the regular military forces is the only way they might succeed.
The populace is not even armed.
And unlike in times of old, one simply does not just storm the ramparts of some armory for instance, and obtain arms. They would be mowed down, with out the help of insiders. And such movements would have to be coordinated in like scenarios country wide. No easy tasks. Probably literally impossible to achieve.
This country has become slaves to a cadre of evil men under a few real sick dudes. No different then in China or say North Korea, or pre-invasion Iraq.

[FARS]

“Regular army” has been disarmed for the most part by the vastly better equipped and organized paramoilitary IRGC (Revolutionary Guard) whose commanders, colleagues of ahmadiNutjob, hold almost every iportant post in the country down to mid-level ranks.

The IRGC does not trust the regular forces whose allegiance is nore to the old guard Mullahs not the suicidal hojateih ones in charge right now.

There are close to 400,000 IRGC and Suppression Bassiji forrces members. For anything serious to ahppen in Iran these would habe to be comber out of existence and then the peoplel would rise up.