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How can they be helped, and by whom?

They ARE motivated to overthrow the tyrrany, but just about every dictator in recent times has been overthrown not from within, but from military help or economic pressure from outside. The Soviet Union fell in the latter way, and Hitler, Mussolini, Napoleon, and Saddam, for example, have fallen the former. The Iraqis did not overthrow Saddam, the Germans did not overthrow Hitler, we pounded the crap out of their armies until they surrendered. Ataturk is the exception that comes to mind; he dissolved the Ottoman empire pretty much single-handedly. What they need is an Iranian Ataturk, or someone who can successfully assassinate both Ahmadinejad and Khamenei. If we went to war with Iran we would easily beat them, and Ahmadinejad knows it. The Iranian army is worthless, and it's hardly a match unless he's got nukes. Which is why we should bomb Iran now and pound the crap out of what army they have.

This is the article that talks about the Iranian youth and their views of the US: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-717362,00.html

Quote from article: "A poll conducted by a state-owned company in Tehran in February revealed that 70 per cent of Iranians had a favourable view of the US (which is thus more popular in Iran than in Britain, let alone in France and Germany)."

9 million basijji...Iran's population is around 80 million, there are plenty more decent Iranians out there. 11 million of them did not show up at the ballot box in 05, and Ahmadinejad only won by about 500,000 votes.