> They need something stronger to collapse their dictatorship. They probably need a real opposition leader.

You know, since WW2, that has been a common phrase in US politics. No one has ever benefitted from it unless they willingly become sterilized and toothless - content with being a protectorate of the US and not a soverign state with its own destiny.

If Iran has issues, the iranian people must sort it out, and lead themselves into they state they want. Even if they must die trying to do so.