more detailed intelligence shows that the clerical leadership not only anticipated the Iranian public unrest over petroleum rationing; that it had adequate reserves of refined petroleum and chose not only not to release these reserves to the public but rather to further ration normal supply; and then to deal strenuously and confidently with the protestors.
Thanks. According to John Bolton, the US under the thrall of Secty Rice, a Baker accolyte, is following the European Iran plan - do nothing. As he put it “Europe fiddles while Rome burns.”