I agree. A revolution would be a violent and bloody one. I worry it would still be ineffective. Conservatism is like cancer. The treatment is deadly for both the disease and its victim.

Foreign infervention is almost always the worst possible option.

It only makes sense in the case of active mass genocides (think WWII, Cambodia or Serbia). Toppling an oppresive but stable regime through foreign power always ends in destabilisation and even more suffering to the people.

...wasn't foreign intervention the primary reason why Iran is in this mess in the first place?

Yes. Though it's not really as hypocritical as it seems at first glance.

Assume you view suicide as being punished with eternal torment.

Someone wants to kill themselves, but, if you kill them instead it isn't a mortal sin.

From your moral framework the execution is now a mercy. They no longer suffer, in this life or the next.

Ya know, if you believe in sky daddies and whatnot.

Suicide, really. That's the last thing you should try. You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times, they'd have hung you for it.

-- Peter Cook, Bedazzled (1968)

What follows is death anyway, might as well make a bit of difference in the process

The army that folded in two days after 20 years of time wasted trying to make a horse drink.

Yeah. That’s sad. I hope there will be changes. But you’re correct. It’s a sad reality