[antaresequity]

You are wrong. There are many, many in Iran that are fed up with the Islamic government.

70% of Iran is under the age of 30, and a very large percentage of that 70% hold pro-western secular views of government and want reform...

[Illbay]

One of my good friends is a woman engineer who used to report to me. She and her husband came here as teens in 1979 with their families, running from Khomaeini. Her father was a Major General in the Iranian Air Force and had a death sentence on his head.

A few years ago, when the first rumblings of discontent began to be heard, I found her in her office listening to the local Farsi language radio station here in Houston. It was a talk show originating from Los Angeles, and people were calling in to say "I'm ready to go back! Let's buy the rifles, let's buy the hand grenades, let's buy helicopters, etc.! Let's go take back our country."

I said to her, "do they really think they could do that?" I thought it was a joke. She looked at me, indignant, and said firmly "I would go back in a moment, with an AK-47 and hand grenades, and kill those people if I thought we could free our country!"

She was in tears.

The thing is, this woman and her husband have children, probably earn in excess of $200K per year, have a palatial home here in Houston, and a son who is just about to go to medical school.

It's not as if they have been poor refugees with nowhere to go but up.

Don't underestimate the fire in the belly of the true patriot.