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One thing we certainly can do: opposition research of their religious leadership. I bet their religious leaders are a bunch of sleazy, hedonistic, embezzling hypocrites. We need our intelligence people to get that info out to the Iranian people, smuggle it out there covertly and subtly.

Oh, Arthur is right somehow,
I have never walked on your flag, I have never burnt it.
I said once, they painted your sacred flag on the entry of the campus I go! I swear I have never walked on it, I jumped over in winter on ice, in fall in rainy days, in summer.
What or who forced me to jump? you? your government? your movies? your culture? I doubt, it was me, my mind!
The respect you pay to your flag forced me to do so.
I hung one flag of the USA and one former flag of Iran on the wall of my room.
I just hoped that you understand this kind of feeling and I should say, this is not inside me only, I know many people here who act the same as I do.
We respect your country for its values and when we see a bad scene,we ask each other: Is it America?
Be real please and think of what you say.

I don't think anyone needs to tell the Iranians that their leadership is sleazy; they have first hand knowledge.

With so many years in power and (one assumes) a lot of money to toss around, the government WILL have some form of praetorian guard to back it up against the rabble. Since its whole purpose is to hold down internal dissent, much like Iraq, it would melt away in front of the 3d herd and probably in front of a Spec Ops trained local force.

However,

Unfortunately, what is probably necessary is for enough common folk in Iran to rise up so that the mullahs MUST take excessive measures. People have to get hurt and the world has got to know about it (belief might be another thing entirely).

We could only go in as either a stabilizing force to stop that violence, or as an interdiction force to get the Baathist Iraqi's out of the border area...THAT I'd support in an instant.

PS: I've always believed that the big reason Tienanmin (sp?) Square didn't cause any counter action from the west was that we were in on it ... outside provocation would have been proven. We don't want that in Iran - again.