What if the Shah were willing to go to any lengths to preserve the monarchy and the structure of the Pahlavi state?
Could this have worked for more than a few months or weeks?
Would it have caused something analogous to the current Syrian Civil War? Or the Algerian Civil War?
Presuming repression buys a multiyear period of quiet or apparent stability, what movement would dominate the next round of anti regime agitation in the 80s, 90s or later? Islamists? Leftists? The National Front? "People Power" Democrats? or a Military coup promising to make popular reforms and policy revisions (sort of a Pakistan solution)?
Could this have worked for more than a few months or weeks?
Would it have caused something analogous to the current Syrian Civil War? Or the Algerian Civil War?
Presuming repression buys a multiyear period of quiet or apparent stability, what movement would dominate the next round of anti regime agitation in the 80s, 90s or later? Islamists? Leftists? The National Front? "People Power" Democrats? or a Military coup promising to make popular reforms and policy revisions (sort of a Pakistan solution)?