What seems to be happening in Iran is a feeling among the young that the mullahs are empowering and enriching themselves thru their offices. This leads to a growing dissatisfaction with Islam itself, leading to a perception that religion is a scam for the enrichment of the clergy
Rather than a repeat of the American Revolution, the dynamics in Iran may induce something more like the French Revolution, and the longer it is successfully repressed, the bigger the final explosion will be
Good point.
Only in the French Revolution, while it was also a reputiation of the Catholic Church, the Church did not do the governing just apporved the government, the daily governing did not have to get approved by the Cardinals and Bishops. It was a looser relationship with the Catholic Church having lost a lot of its control over the kings of Europe.
In Iran it is the mullahs that control the daily workings of the government. It is a government of religion. There will be a die hard element of the population that will fight to defend it.
I hope that this government falls easily. I just have this feeling that it won't. Islam demands islamic government and laws for its people. I think that religious islamics will feel that trying to destroy their islamic government will be a sin, and they must fight to keep it, to defend the faith.