re: #49 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The situations are vastly different.
There was no chance for the Uprising to succeed.
However slender, this one has a chance.

Weellll …. there would have been a chance in Hungary in 1956 if (a very big one, i know!) the SU hadn’t invaded. Thus - it was tanks against Molotov cocktails - and ruthless Kremlin dictators against normal people.

Here, today, in Teheran - it might (I hope not) still turn to tanks against people armed only with Molotov cocktails.
Ruthless Mullahs aside - tanks against unarmed people: tanks win.