Word: revolutionize
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“It’s like saying, ‘Will the weather be fine tomorrow or rainy?’ No one can tell you with authority,” he said. “It seems hard to believe a revolution can take place, but that...
Maier added that “a serious type of long-term civil war” would most likely be necessary for a revolution to take place.
Most professors said they view a widespread crackdown by the Iranian government as more probable than an overhaul of the existing regime structure, though the majority also said they could not write off the possibility of a full-fledged revolution.
Kennedy School Professor Graham T. Allison, whose specialties include Iran and international defense, said that the outcome of those protests is more likely to resemble Tiananmen Square in 1989 rather than Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979. But he added that recent elections, whose results he said were...
History Professor Charles S. Maier ’60 compared predicting a revolution in Iran to a weather forecast.