content: Yes.  Most CIA stooges get the boot over time.  Hussein, Marcos, Noriega, Pinochet.  I could go on.  Times change.  No flies on the CIA.    Was the Iranian revolution grass roots?  Who knows?   Maybe. They knew it was the CIA that installed the Shah.   Israel (and by proxy the US) seems to have been gunning for Iran for a long time now so maybe it really was.  They were one of the seven countries that needed to be overthrown according to PNAC so maybe the current regime is not a puppet.  I have my doubts though.    I think at the highest levels it's all controlled by the elite families.   They may fight among themselves occasionally but it's not them suffering from it.