What happened to all the students who were starting to protest their own government in Iran? For a while there I thought we were banking on a popular uprising against them.
They got no meaningful support and were left to die on the vine...just like the pro-Democracy students in China were betrayed in 1989.
The problem with relying on any type of internal resistance is sorting out the real ones from the intelligence folks -- and many of the loudest ones are agents provocateurs. We don't have time to engage is such a time-consuming endeavor -- Iran will very soon have the bomb, and even if there were a significant real resistance, counting on it alone would be unwise. Rebellions are uncertain endeavors, at best, and we just don't have time to see how one might play out in Iran.