Once you’ve had a couple of dozen kids killed, and a couple hundred people disappear...then folks start to note who are the small players in events...the cops, guys in the army, minor-league political figures...and then they whack them. It may take weeks and months...but if you represent anything of authority in Iran...even the local chief of police of some small 50-man force...your future doesn’t look bright. All it takes is one weapon and a mind for revenge....then things start to crumble.
How come this has not happened in a country like China or other oppressive regimes that kill their own people?