Dearlove predicts the beginning of the end for Iran's theocratic regime.
“I think it's the beginning of the end of the theocratic regime in Iran. How quickly that regime comes down, I think it's hard to predict.”
Dearlove suggests Iran may remain under Ayatollahs but become more compliant and willing to negotiate.
“One is you end up with an Iranian regime, which is still run by Ayatollahs, but is prepared to be more compliant and will negotiate with Americans and with the rest of the Middle East.”
Dearlove warns superior Western military power quickly removed regimes but resulted in chaos afterward.
“In all of those cases, the superior air power and military of The United States and the West quickly removed the regimes or dictators, but then it was chaos.”
Dearlove warns Iran has no opposition organizations and chaos could emerge before any new government forms after IRGC defeat.
“There's no opposition. If the IRGC are pretty much knocked out, maybe bits of the military will be left and and and could step into the vacuum.”
Dearlove suggests Iranian army could take over from IRGC as more nationalistic than theocratic force.
“It's possible you could get an army takeover in Iran. By that, I mean, I'm drawing a distinction between the army and the IRGC. The army has a more nationalistic rather than theocratic.”
Dearlove suggests Iranian army could take over, would be nationalistic but more amenable to negotiation than IRGC regime.
“They are the Iranian military. Okay. They would still be a very nationalistic government, but they might be more amenable to negotiation.”