The leaders know their time is running out (especially Chamenei, which is an old man by now), and I sincerely believe that in his perspective it is much more favourable to go out on the prospect of being worshipped by his followers for a long time to come instead of doing a Saddam.
How many senior Taliban members are still alive from those days? The organisation persists, most of the leadership didn’t.
You cannot kill an idea
No, but they can certainly kill the Ayatollahs, and I don’t think they’re willing to die for the cause.
You know that there is a concept known as “martyrdom”, right?
I’m aware. Do you think these guys want to be martyrs?
The leaders know their time is running out (especially Chamenei, which is an old man by now), and I sincerely believe that in his perspective it is much more favourable to go out on the prospect of being worshipped by his followers for a long time to come instead of doing a Saddam.
Oh you very much can, what you can’t do is stop ideas from mutating.
Ideas VERY rarely if ever actually survive the original source of them. The moment an idea is passed onto the next generation it changes.
You can make an argument that it’s the same idea, but it rarely RARELY is.
Much like a virus, an idea can have similarities to what came before, but each version is unique and has it’s owns strength and weaknesses.
All you can really hope is that the next version isn’t more deadly and immune to the cure.