Iran's current situation is more or less what you get when

the government is run for a good long time by abortion clinic bombers.
After a while they get a very decadent taste for the blood of their fellow citizens and then all kinds of brutal mishaugas follows.
Humble Elias does not pretend to understand what happens next in Iran the two most likely scenarios are, the Government falls thru popular pressure a'la the deposition of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines or the Mullahs will savagely crack down and hold onto their phony baloney jobs as did Vice Chairman Deng's gang in China circa 1989.

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Meanwhile you have to love CNN, barred from broadcasting from Tehran they create breathless day long crisis coverage of the situation out of maybe ninety seconds of unvetted Youtube footage and a Iran-beat reporter (Christine Armapour) who is in fact based in London.