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Israel increasingly appears eager to oust the clerical leadership that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution but is taking a gamble given the Iranian opposition is divided and there is no guarantee new rulers would be any less hardline, analysts say.

A quarter century before the 1979 revolution, the US and UK helped depose democratically elected Iranian PM Mossadegh.

Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the long, repressive reign of the Shah of Iran, whose security services brutalized Iranian citizens for decades.

Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi advocates for global action to defeat Iran's regime and reclaim the country's freedom and dignity.