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Iran is slowly starving to death. They have lost so much in support of growing numbers of people. Hardly 20% at most of Iranians even know what the revolution was all about.
Increasing numbers of Iranians are seeing the Mullah controlled government for what it is. The bearded fat cats stay healthy and well feed, while there is no work for the masses, and less gasoline and what used to be easy to get western goods. The threat is constantly over them that foreign nations may bomb their nuclear facilities into dust. Their very lives are controlled by the revolutionary guard.
The Mullahs fear the military could turn against them and their IRGC.
All is not right within the Mullah bureaucracy. Mahmoud Ahmadinejah may find his ass out on the street in due time.
With the low price of oil they are really going under fast.
So all they have is the standard bravado to go on. The vast number of people probably cringed each time the few shoot their mouths off.
It will be interesting to see how much Russia and China are willing to go out on a limb at this point in their continued protection of a failing state.