Totally agree — figures like Al-Julani aren’t anyone’s idea of progress or civilization.

But Iran’s case is fundamentally different.

The opposition isn’t made up of jihadist warlords. It’s largely secular, educated, and deeply rooted in modern civil values.

The diaspora includes human rights advocates, constitutional monarchists, liberal reformists, exiled intellectuals, and even former regime insiders who’ve broken away.

It’s not a perfect bloc, but it’s remarkably civilized by any global standard—and worlds apart from the chaos that followed regime change in Syria or Libya.

Of course, no change is without risk—but clinging to a brutal theocracy because the alternative isn’t perfectly mapped out is just another form of paralysis.