Foreign invasion tends to cause people to rally around their government, or at least put internal conflicts on the backburner, historically, I’d imagine such a strategy would stand a serious chance of actually preventing any revolution that might otherwise take place.
They wouldn’t need to hold it. Iran is already primed for revolution. Just create the power vacuum.
Foreign invasion tends to cause people to rally around their government, or at least put internal conflicts on the backburner, historically, I’d imagine such a strategy would stand a serious chance of actually preventing any revolution that might otherwise take place.
I don’t see the younger generation of Iran, which was brutally put down over the Hijab protests, coalescing behind their terrorist government.