It occurs to me, that this is how regime change happens. From the people. The right wing strategy of imposing regime change failed so completely because it never understood that only the people of a nation could change its regime. We threw out King George III. The Russians threw out the communist hardliners in 1991, after their attempted coup of Gorbachev. The Iranians themselves threw out the American-installed and supported Shah, and the regime they brought to power then has turned on the same people now. If that regime is going to be thrown out now remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: the only people that can the regime are the Iranians themselves.