What's next in Iran?

For a few precious days it looked like the Soleimani execution had done the unthinkable; unite the people of Iran behind their government.

Thankfully, fate intervened as the ayatollahs immediately gifted their opponents the propaganda coup of PS752. The Iranian people are once again in the streets, this time united against their government.

This is the moment for the Nations of Virtue to pile on. If there’s any way to up “maximum pressure,” it must be found. We want chaos in the streets of Tehran. We want Iran to be ungovernable. Trump is already doing his part with his Twitter account.

Iran is scheduled to hold elections in six weeks. If they are not cancelled outright, expect various American-sponsored voices to howl in outrage about how the elections were “stolen.” America, followed immediately by the me-too nations, will declare the results null and void and will recognize some “alternative” government, perhaps made up of MEK operatives, whom Pompeo has already referred to as Iran’s “government in exile.”

That’s a strategy that worked perfectly in Bolivia, not so much in Venezuela. Worst case scenario, Iran descends into civil war…

Not such a happy outcome for the people of Iran, perhaps, but certainly something they can live with in Tel Aviv, Washington, and the other capitals in the Nations of Virtue.