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Trying to engage Iran while the mullahs are in power is like trying to have sex while wearing a full suit of armor.

First get rid of the mullahs; then engage the Iranian people who want to be engaged.

The people of Iran are pretty young, educated, and progressive (at least for the Middle East); and most of them hate the mullahs' rule but are powerless against it. The mullahs beat them down whenever they try to demonstrate. The iron-fisted ruling mullahs of Iran are Dark Age morons (who are also corrupt and who steal billions from the country).

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All too true.

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Take them out; they, not the Iranian people, are a significant part of the axis of evil.

Regime change is a good thing in some cases. Drop a few bombs on the mullah's next grand assembly. This approach will also take out the mullah's nuclear program. Free the Iranian people from their Dark Age tyrants. Then you can have all the "constructive engagement" you want--with the people of Iran, not with some Dark Age madmen.

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What I've read is that while the young, pro-America base in Iran would love to see the mullahs leave power, they don't want it to be America who takes them out. Iranians, like most Arabs, have a lot of pride. They still feel like they can change from within, rather than have a massive world power with its own agenda invading their country. It will be interesting to see how this administration and future ones balance the perceived threat to American security with the Iranian people's desire to keep their struggle internal.