Thank you once again, for investing your time into the writing of this post. I had wondered about the news of the Israeli call up of this large number of its reservists. Your post provides a compelling answer.

"... allow the people to rise up and overthrow the regime ..."

"Seeing through the eyes of another" I would be very interested to get your opinion on the percentage of the Iranian people for which the above is true. And, as an associated question, how many of the future leaders of a new governing body were killed a few weeks ago. Surely the Iranian regime had enough internal information on those with whom they had the greatest concern.

The American people are (understandably?) very wary of the idea that the populations of some of these countries have any idea of what it means to truly be free. Having achieved very quick military victories over both Afghanistan and Irag, our leaders decided to NOT withdraw. The cost in "blood and treasure" of these decisions is not ancient history.

Given the impression (from a distance, as I make no claim to being any sort of an expert) these people's history of being ruled over by strongmen, how "liberated" Iranians would go about even making a decision on their future is not a trivial question.