In response to a post by ORAC (Post 2346 in this thread) that discussed various people advising some sort of compromise with the Israeli's and the United States I made the following comment.....
ORAC's post re the apparent "splintering" of the upper echelons of the Iranian Government concerning strategy raises a very important issue.
I watched a long interview of some long time CIA Analysts who spent their full career in the Iran Unit and one of the "Red Flags" they said to look for that might foreshadow either a revolt by the Iranian People or a takeover of the government by moderates would be what they described as "splintering" meaning higher ups who abandon, flee, challenge, or in a major way fall out with the Ayatollahs and their closest allies. They did not say what they thought "would" happen but merely opined that certain events were indicators of "possible" events.
Now we are seeing in the Newsweek article linked by Hangarless that suggests there is again some division amongst the Iranian leadership where the Ayatollah seems a bit detached from reality.
Are we beginning to see some "splintering" first mentioned by ORAC and added to by the information I offered?