“If we wish to impose a regime more to our liking in Tehran, we will have to do it the way we did it with Germany and Japan after 1945...”
Nope. We just need to support the Iranian people who want to overthrow the Mullahs.
Not that the next guy in charge will be any good. Frankly, the model that worked best for everyone, including Iran, was when we installed a puppet strongman like the Shah. He was horrible, yes....but MUCH less so than the Mullahs.
I have never met an Iranian who wanted to overthrown the Mullahs. Maybe it's because I've never been to Iran, and the Iranian-born Americans I know here in the U.S. simply don't give a sh!t about Iran anymore.
Maybe those people exist, but I am long past the point where I believe any of the bullsh!t that is peddled by our government anyway.