And Khamenei lacks the stern, spellbinding charisma that bound the first revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, so strongly to his people.
But Iran's clerical regime ``has survived everything short of the plague'' in its 28 years, said Suzanne Maloney, a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in Washington.
And no coherent, organized opposition has ever emerged.
Khalaji is blunt: Ahmadinejad may be unpopular and ``very fragile.'' But he says: ``The regime is not vulnerable at all.''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7100924,00.html
It is so easy to say it, and so The Guardian does. But The Guardian, like many other newspapers is wrong. I have found that the more liberal press like The Guardian, that does not like the nationalist opposition forces, and will not be seen to be supporting the Islamist ones, makes such crazy comments.
For crying out loud Sally Buzbee, ask any Iranian, and they will tell you, that these monsters are not Iranian. All the Blogs in the internet, that the Iranians are famous for, are there, because 65% of the Iranian population, that are young, all speak of Iranian values, that are opposed to the Seyyed ones. So why don't you do your work properly and read those blogs, and see the opposition.
And it is organised. Ok, maybe we don't all have one platform that we have one speaker to represent us. But we are all saying the same thing about the Seyyeds. So our Iranian culture has organized us. Our Iranian culture is beyond politics and religion. We do not have a religious or political opposition. We have a national opposition.
Iranians have recognised these Seyyeds as aliens.