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The preferable method of democratizing Iran is to implode the government through internal unrest. Perhaps if a majority-Shiite Arab nation immediately next to Iran were democratized, dissidents would have a leg up on frothing up popular discontent. *wink wink*
If the standard of living in Iraq becomes considerably better than that in Iran, which it probably will... I can see a coup d'etat forming entirely within Iran. A little help from the CIA and Iraqi Shiites who sing the praises of democracy and the Iranian regime will be on very shaky ground.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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