“How popular would the mullahs be with a cold, damp and hungry populace, unable to provide much power for them to live, merely survive?”
Much more than they are now. Don’t you pay attention to the history of war?
What? You believe that making the populace MORE uncomfortable would UP the popularity of the mullahs? They already suffer from electricity supply problems due to limited rainfall, but increase such shortages and you figure that would make the mullahs MORE popular? What? Please explain.