[F14 Pilot]

Iran not an easy target for regime change
By Nadia Jaber, Staff Reporter | 10-08-2003

It seems that the United States has already made strategic plans to deal with regime change in Iran, the way it has done with Saddam Hussain's regime in Iraq.

The U.S. invaded Iraq under the slogan of finding weapons of mass destruction.....

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=94789

[F14 Pilot]

Ministry drawing up a draft on journalists' security

Sunday, August 10, 2003 - ©2003 IranMania.com

Tehran, Aug 9, IRNA -- Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ahmad Masjed Jamei here on Saturday said that the culture ministry is currently involved in drawing ....

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=17397&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs

[DoctorZIn]

Gulf News is a pro regime publication as the quotes from your post, "Iran not an easy target for regime change," illustrates .

...Most importantly, the whole world, including the Americans, is watching the poor performance of the coalition in post-Saddam Iraq.

The Americans should ask themselves now how to get out of the Iraqi quagmire instead of indulging themselves into the deeper one of Iran...

[Eala]

It seems that the United States has already made strategic plans to deal with regime change in Iran, the way it has done with Saddam Hussain's regime in Iraq.

I think the US would be remiss if it did not have a number of plans, different ways, to "deal with [help bring about?] regime change in Iran." (And they might even include an approach similar to the one for Iraq.) But having them drafted is different from executing them.

Although the article is probably correct in that a replay of Iraq would play out significantly differently in Iran, there seemed a bit of "Baghdad Bob" in this article.