Interesting report in the New York Times about attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-scientist-says-blasts-targeted-nuclear-sites.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes
Iran is not a unitary nation state it is an empire, and like most empires is full of dissident groups, disaffected minority ethnicities and swirling social ferments.
If you wanted to subvert such a society it would be easy. There would be no shortage of recruits. And if you recruit enough seditionaries the natural paranoia of the Iranian religious-political-military power nexus will start to work against itself with purges, arrests and false accusations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-scientist-says-blasts-targeted-nuclear-sites.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes
Iran is not a unitary nation state it is an empire, and like most empires is full of dissident groups, disaffected minority ethnicities and swirling social ferments.
If you wanted to subvert such a society it would be easy. There would be no shortage of recruits. And if you recruit enough seditionaries the natural paranoia of the Iranian religious-political-military power nexus will start to work against itself with purges, arrests and false accusations.
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