A lot of Americans have been surprised by the reaction in Iran to the suspicious election results. No one who has ever paid any attention to Persian history, recent or ancient or who knows any Iranians should be surprised. They are capable of and willing to engage in revolution.
Nobody should expect that in the end the government that is installed is not Islamicist, anti-Israel, and very leery of American influence. Those things are just going to be a given. It's going to be a given in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan too.
Democratic or not, functional governments mirror the attitudes of the people.
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