Suna Rasmussen
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 16 Jan
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What we're hearing is that Trump wanted an option for a big U.S.
strike, one that could potentially decapitate or severely damage the regime.
But U.S.
military intervention in Iran is quite complicated.
And almost no matter what option Trump went for, whether it's a big spectacular strike against the government's facilities, whether it's a strike on security forces...
On Iran's nuclear capabilities, no matter what it is, it is unclear what effect, if any, it would have on the ground and how it would change the power balance between protesters and the government.
Yeah, and I think it's worth just keeping in mind what it actually takes to have a popular uprising succeed.
And foreign intervention can certainly help push things along, but there are certain things that you need on the ground for an uprising to succeed.
You need the opposition to be involved.
united and organized around a common goal.
Maybe you have that, although organizing the opposition in Iran has been tricky in recent years, or recent decades, because the Iranian government has managed to arrest, marginalize, drive into exile a lot of leaders who could organize an opposition.
And then you need the security establishment to fracture.
That can either be the government, but it can also importantly be security forces.
And we haven't seen any indication in Iran that that's happening this time around.
Trump is not the first president to face this conundrum.
Barack Obama famously in 2009 during the Green Movement protests in Iran did not intervene on behalf of protesters, even though there were some calls among protesters for him to support them.
And he declined to do that primarily because he didn't want to make it appear as if the U.S.
was fermenting the uprising in Iran.
And a very standard accusation by the Iranian government is that protesters in the streets are foreign agents or terrorists.
And we've seen this this time around as well.
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