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That was not a religious dictatorship, with a decent percentage of the people thinking that it is Gods will to prop up and defend the mullahs.

The younger generation is increasingly disaffected.

This is bad news for the regime, because it's the young ones who compose the enlisted ranks in the military

I agree with you totally about the younger generation, and that there might even be a large portion of the older generation that wants out from under the Mullahs, but we were discussing the nature of falling dictatorships. I have never seen a islamic religion led dictatorship fall from within. I am not sure even historically it has happened, maybe with outside influence.

You still will have a portion of the population 10-20%(???) who will think that they are doing Gods work to destroy any uprising. I guess what I was trying to say is that Iran will be dealing with different dynamics than Romania was when that dictatorship fell. There was nobody defending Caucescu because it was God's will.

I read somewhere that in the American Revolution only a small portion of the population actually took a stand. It will depend on how many are actually prepared to fight (die) for freedom, and how many will die to save the mullahs. Not to mention that the ones wanting freedom have no guns and the mullahs do.