“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.
It will probably need to get a lot worse before a solution is possible. How much worse? Bad enough that 80% or more of the people are fed up with Islam entirely, and given an opportunity would kill every cleric and burn all the Qurans in a huge bonfire. And for decades afterward, anybody coming into the country spouting Da'wa (call to Islam) would be killed
Anything less than that, and you would be trading one Islamic republic for another within a few years
Understand your comments regarding regular army verse the RG. This country is in lock down no different then what the Soviets,Chinese,NK have/had. Unlike Hollywood scripts, one simply does not march in and put a bullet into a dictators head and solve the problem that exists in Iran. The Mullahs and their adherants are simply to well established.