[pinkbeanz]

Iranians are willing to die (and are dying) to fight the current government. Inflation and the economy has destroyed their hope of a future for decades. Talk to any Iranian now and they’re all hoping for the end of the regime. It can’t get much worse.

Iran is not Syria, there’s a flourishing academic population, the fundamentalists are the ones in power, plenty of people still remember what life was like pre-1979.

[the_af]

> Iran is not Syria, there’s a flourishing academic population, the fundamentalists are the ones in power

What do you think will happen if the Iranian state collapses? What happened the last time the Iranian state collapsed?

Something to ponder before wishing for another collapse.

[pinkbeanz]

I’m an Iranian, I’m allowed to wish for the collapse of that awful regime. You can save your sanctimony for someone else.

[samtho]

This reads like a low-key, state-sponsored bot post on Twitter: spreading FUD under the guise of being “safe.” Iranians need to take back their country, they are already not safe.

At this point, the only transfer of power that will happen will be due to a hostile civilian takeover. The current regime will not abdicate and any foreign military coup will likely not be tolerated by the people.

A revolution will serve as a cautionary tale to future governments who attempt to push fundamentalism as law.

[icare_1er]

One is right to be careful about another state collapsing, after the failures of Irak, Syria, Lybia, etc....

However, I also think the Iranian situation (and unlike many commenters I know Iran, have been there many times, and more) is different because there already is a quite successful diaspora of Iranians ready to take back control of the country.

Iranians have managed to somehow maintain a decent amount of infrastructure despite the sanctions and the general adversity (they did not become Cuba). There is an inherent vitality within the Iranian people which makes me very confident that once the islamists are rooted out, their country will spring back to being a working economy thanks to its intellectually very capable people and its diaspora.