[small_model]

If true, and given how easy it seemed decapitate the regime I can't see another Ayatollah taking over, hopefully the people take over and institute a real secular democracy based on capitalism.

[grey-area]

Without proper support and a huge nation building effort, the same fate as Lebanon, Syria, Lybia Iraq, Afghanistan is the more likely outcome after this evil dictator is gone.

Assassination doesn’t remove the system or rewrite the balance of power, nor does it reconstitute civil society.

[XorNot]

Why not? If there's one thing that's been proven over the last 20 years it's you can just outlast America.