They're not the same...the mullahs in Iran only care about staying in power, they're not fanatics.
If there are huge, nationwide, demonstrations the choices will be to wait them out, step down, or take violent action. The thinking is that they won't take violent action because they do have good relations with Europe and Russia and that would ruin them. If they try to wait them out they can, if they keep control of the oil.
They're not the same...the mullahs in Iran only care about staying in power, they're not fanatics.
Can't agree with you on that. They're fanatics by most definitions of the word.
And I'm fairly certain that they'd order crowds fired upon if they thought they were in danger of being overthrown. I hope, though, that it doesn't come to that. The Iranian people have suffered enough.