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What Happens After We 'Decapitate' Iran's Government?

from Back To Iran, Gaza Reborn, & A Happy New Year | The Tim Dillon Show #477 · #477

5 min

Tim questions what a US/Israel-installed government in Iran would actually look like, comparing it to America's own dysfunctional two-party hatred and noting nobody has a real answer for governing 90 million people afterward.

In this bit9 moments
  • Tim dismisses Iranian officials' claims that Israel and the US are stoking demonstrations.
  • Recalling protests in Beverly Hills after the death of Mahsa Amini, and acknowledging the legitimate desire to escape an Islamic theocracy.
  • Tim questions what happens to the millions of Iranians who don't want a US-Israel puppet government either.
  • Installing an effective government in Iran seems unlikely when the US can barely maintain one at home.
  • The Iran intervention plan sounds like it was hatched at a Palm Beach New Year's Eve party.
  • Everyone agrees the Iranian government is bad, but no one can explain the practical path to change.
  • When Iranian diaspora members call their government illegitimate, Tim acknowledges the feeling while questioning the solution.
  • Agreeing in theory that Iranians deserve freedom is easy; figuring out how to get there is the hard part no one addresses.
  • Tim doesn't oppose the goal of prosperity and freedom for Iran's 90 million people—just the mechanism to achieve it.
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IranMaha AminiAli LuranjaniDonald Trump

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