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39. I don't fancy Phhlavi's prospects for longevity if that happens

Sun Jun 22, 2025, 06:39 PM

Jun 2025

so let's hope hefancies a life of safety and leisure as an exiled royal.

There are still plenty of people there who remember the Shah and SAVAK and that a royal autocrat was at least as bad as the religious one has been, albeit with a little less hypocrisy.

I don't know what Iran will do, whether they'll welcome the goveernment types who fled to Oman a few days ago back with open arms, whether they'll keep Khamenei on as a figurehead with just enough power to avoid a complete power vacuum while they decide what too do next or something I haven't thought about. I just don't think they'll want another Shah foisted upon them by external powers, they've been there and done that, the UK and US overthrowing their last democracy because oil men screamed communism when Iran nationalized their oil fields.

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