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Former CIA director: Regime change in Iran difficult
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When it comes to overall regime change, however, I think that's pretty tough to envision other
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than from within the regime. Typically, when these situations occur, when a regime is weakened
00:13
to the point that it might be overthrown, the individual or group that's on top at the end of
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it when the dust settles is the one that has the most effective and charismatic leader and the
00:25
most guys with the most guns. And in this case, there's no real opposition leader who has emerged
00:32
if he had, he'd be in prison or dead. Although we should note that Israel did bomb the entrance of
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the prison that holds most of the political prisoners of Iran. But again, there's not that
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figure out there. There's not the kind of robust organization, weapons and so forth that could
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materialize. So I'm a bit cautious about the prospects for outside overthrow of this regime.
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But you could always envision someone inside the regime at a reasonably high position who could say,
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you know, this 86 or 87 year old guy is about to die anyway. Why don't we influence the succession
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process a bit here or something along those lines? But I think we should be cautious about
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hopes that this might usher in an opportunity for a Jeffersonian Democrat to ride in on a white horse
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and take over and recognize that all of this support for proxies and nuclear enrichment and so forth
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has been incredibly damaging to their country.
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