The Old Familiar Script

For a government, an empire, to have the power
to destroy another (smaller) government,
but have no interest in what replaces
what they destroy, beyond wanting it
to be a weaker, vainer, version
of the destroying government is a familiar script.

from the Boer War of 1900, when the British
opened the first concentration camp, which indirectly
led to state sponsored apartheid (1948 - 1994)
through to the USA in its Anti-Communist zeal
knowing more what it did not want from, Iran,
from the 1951 onward, when elected Prime Minister
of Mohamed Mossadegh ousted British Petroleum 
by fiat, the British cried 'foul' and blocked Iranian oil.

MI6 and the CIA did not want Iranian autonomy,
and overthrew his government, which was caught
between different cold war and anti-cold war influences.
The Americans backed a weaker Shah, and a form of rule
they surely knew could not last, and instructed him badly
on how to make his regime more sustainable with the people.

Will the next leaders of Iran be a tougher bunch of thugs
than the last lot? And the lot before them? 
Tougher than the present day lethal Israeli and American weaponry
presently razing Iran's ability to form a government to the ground?

The new Iranian government will have to be tough to withstand all that.

And Iran's necessary toughness will be a problem
for all future anti-communist tough guys,
who with their short term memory media,
have no sense of history, or of how
long term government takes to be rebuilt
with the co-operation of the citizen.