Posted on 06/21/2025 11:14:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As the Iranian regime reels from sustained Israeli strikes on military and nuclear infrastructure, debate is intensifying over what could come next.
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince of Iran and a prominent opposition figure, posted yesterday, "Sources inside Iran say that the regime’s command and control structures are collapsing at a rapid pace. Meanwhile, the international community is beginning to realize that the Islamic Republic has no future. Our discussions about a post-Islamic Republic Iran have begun."
"The first thing is revolution is too broad a word," said Behnam Taleblu, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "The better words are evolution and devolution, meaning if you get something better or something worse. Because this is the Middle East, and fundamentally, things can get worse, not better, when you introduce an exogenous shock."
Taleblu cautioned that both the Iranian opposition and Western governments have failed to prepare for regime collapse because of a long-standing reluctance to engage with the idea of regime change. "By not being able to articulate the necessary political strategy... we are most unprepared," he said.
Beni Sabti, an Iran expert at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, sees four scenarios emerging from the current moment — one of which, he warns, is far worse than the others.
"The Iranian people are currently leaderless, low-energy, and disillusioned since the women’s protests," Sveti told Fox News Digital. "One scenario is collapse from within, similar to the Soviet Union. A brigade commander inside the Revolutionary Guards, supported by a circle of loyalists, could decide to rebel from within the regime."
Sabti said that after Israel eliminated many Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) generals, Iran’s regular army may now be better positioned to...
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Reza is not the answer but he could help.
Imagine a world without ayatollahs.
Why is he not the answer?
Let the Persians have a legit voting system. If they can.
Easier than making a world without ayatollahs.
Mob Rule always works well for The Mob.
A squeamish lack of will.
No such thing.
If he were legitimately made head of the country (I don’t even know what that really means anymore), then Iran would clearly be a secular society. That would be good. Mullahs are bad.
All this crapola about the United States being “drawn” into the war. We have been at war with the Islamofascistnazis since President Thomas Jefferson sent the United States Navy to deal with them.
One of the constants of it is Jihad. Jihad does not “turn the other cheek.” Jihad does not practice the Golden Rule.
Death to America. That is their consensus. Our soldiers stand in front and protect young children, of any country. They dress up in women’s clothes and use women and children as human shields.
Peace through strength. For them, it is peace through death.
What Iran and every middle eastern country needs is secular pro western government... They need complete separation of mosque and state.
“ For them, it is peace through death.”
So let’s give it to them.
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History informs Peoples that there is a need to assess the status of Ayatollahs before they are allowed to indoctrinate a following of Violent Terrorist Supplicants within the People.
Failure to do so forces a segment of the People to perform that assessment and include the Violent Terrorist Supplicants in the correction necessary.
Tragically, the correction must occur within the entire People and the collateral damage must be borne by the entire People.
There’s zero Iranian support for Reza Pahlavi. Nor do I expect the Iranians to accept any kind of installed Western puppet. They will keep what they have before allowing either.
And if they vote for someone we don't approve of, we'll just do a replay of the 1953 coup d'état the CIA pulled off in Iran.
“ Imagine a world without ayatollahs.”
That’s they key.
Iran has a system. Problem is they have the mullah overlords above the system.
Excise that cancer and Iran can move forward.
Reza Palahvi has consistently lobbied for a Democratic form of govt chosen by the Iranian people. He has organized a transition team for the first 100 days to avoid a power vacuum after the mullahs are gone.
i’d like the world to know an ayatollah free zone.
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