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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Yeah, but on the other hand if you can secretly encourage a civil war in Iran it would sure drop the governments extreme thought processes to merely surviving for a few years.
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I don't view a destabilized Iran as a positive thing for western interests in the region. Regardless of whether the US and Britain were involved, they will blamed by a portion of the Muslim world. There would also be the potential that what emerges after the civil war is even less of a theocracy and more of a military dictatorship. It would also cause other semi-theocracies throughout the region to clamp down on their own citizens to make sure that civil unrest doesn't spread. The benefit is that it would probably draw Iran's operatives in Iraq out of there, and put their nuke program on hold, but there is the potential that it increases the likelihood of nuclear technology getting leaked to other nations.
If, on the other hand, you can secretly work to help west-friendly moderate clerics get into positions of power, there's every reason to expect the country to grow increasingly democratized and west-friendly.