Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer
“Back in the first heady days of the attacks on Iran I cautioned that it was relatively easy to kill a few leaders and bomb a bunch of stuff, but harder to understand how a liberal democracy was to magically eventuate in Iran. The US has a history of removing one bad leader and getting only something worse afterwards (remember Diem? Gaddafi?). One problem is that after 40 years of rule, the totalitarian government there is strong and deeply entrenched, and the opposition (while it certainly exists) does not seem to have leadership, plans, or coherent organization. Would killing Hitler in 1943 or Stalin in 1937 have incited a successful revolution? Almost certainly not — not because they were loved but because their party’s instruments of control were strong and the opposition was smashed flat.” (03/09/26)
https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2026/03/as-i-predicted-feared-in-iran.html