The Israel Broadcasting Authority's Iranian desk director, Menashe Amir, on Iran:
"It's clear that the regime in Iran has reached a dead-end after 25 years," says Amir, himself a Teheran native. "The country has become much poorer. The population has grown from 37 million to 67 million. They need to provide 800,000 new jobs each year but can't. Poverty is spreading and many turn to prostitution. Even senior clerics in their Friday sermons speak out against the cost of living. When I ask callers why there has been no uprising, they say the regime is brutal and people are afraid. They point out that without American intervention, neither Afghanistan nor Iraq would have been freed of their oppressive regimes."...Amir believes that the Iranian people would welcome an American incursion "with open arms," an appraisal that may raise eyebrows in view of similar appraisals by experts about Iraq before the US invasion of that country. However, Amir believes that the Iranian regime is ripe for falling, even without the intervention of foreign troops.
"If America invested in encouraging opposition groups inside and outside Iran, it would not need to send in a single soldier."
There's no shortage of oppressed people looking to the United States for a hand up out of hell. As for Iran, my friend Danny O'Brien recently commented on the irony of Ayatollah Khomeini's early-1980s' edict for mass childbearing that has left the majority of the country's population younger than thirty, energetic, contemptuous of dictatorship and desperate for Western-style democracy. Timely assistance from America and allies will ensure that this Saturn won't devour its brood.
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