You and I agree on one of your points: " if Iranian regime is ever to be changed it must be from within and its replacement should be a secular government."
However, the public facts are that the Taliban, planning and operting from Afghanistan and northern parts of Pakistan, engineered the 911 massacre/bombing of he WTT.
Wahabbism in Saudi Arabia is not friendly to the royal family of Saudi Arabia, which government has to "monitor" with internal security forces and on occasion arrest, try, and otherwise punish Wahabbi extremists.
I, myself, agree that the current day Madrassas inside Pakistan are infected with the worst strains of Wahhabism, and are funded from Saudi Arabia Wahabbi religious extremists.
Many of us in the West, including myself, would prefer to see both Saudi and Iran become secular. But in neither case does that seem probable "before the second coming of Jesus."
I find it ironic that my Vanderbilt University/Peabody College freshman year political science textbook chapters dealing with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and most of the Middle East and SW Asia, that textbook is still in many respects fairly "accurate" as if written in 2013 instead of having been written in the late 1950s.
IRAN has had some unusual twists and turns: The Father of the late Shah, when he himself ruled in Iran, was pro-Nazi going into WW II, which is why and how he was over thrown and his son, who was not pro-Nazi, the last Shah, took his father's throne.
Iran's end of WW II into the early 1950s Parliament/Magelias (spelling?) was essentially headed by and then shut down by a Socialist Iranian who sided with the old USSR, which had tried in the last years of WW II to seize, occupy and own the northern Iranian oil fields. Only all the other Allies at the end of WW II backed Joe Stalin down, such that Stalin withdrew his briefly occupying Soviet forces from the northern Iranian oil fields.
"Oil" historically is synonymous with raw political power and alliances to have the strategic and tactical edge in controlling the majority of the world's oil supply.
Ironically, Russia based on news stories (unproven) may well have the larges oil...and gas....reserves anywhere in the whole world. This "idea, maybe a fact" helps take the "sting" out of old alliances and sharp points of view on all sides.
But, we have unusual other natural gas discoveries right here in my native Alabama, which some geologists say are the largest natural gas deposits anywhere in the world.
Other nations, including the US, are increasing the use of natural power sources, solar, wind, and tidal power. Did you realize that tidal power plants on the coast of France provide now up to 10% of all electric power for France?
Back to Saudi Arabia and Iran. Both nations are too driven, my view, by the two major differing sects of Islam. Turkey used to be held up as he secular alternative, best other way to go governmentally. But now we have a sharp turn toward radical Islam in the top centers of political power in today's Turkey, which is yet a NATO Member.
It all makes my graying old head "spin" as nothing is what it once was and nothing is likely to happen to return to old systems per se. Out best hope is better models, newer models, which by definition, justify your and my preferences for more sectarian governments.
All nations need religions and faiths of a wide variety to meet the core need of all mankind to believe in, be uplifted by, and model their personal and individual, not their governmental systems, after. Governments ultimately reflect the "philosophy of good over evil" as a rub off natural effect. The exception(s) are historically and currently those governments who suppress or try to control from the outside any and/or all faith systems and religions. Hitler used the immature post WW I failing democratic process/system to only come in second place in popular political party voting pre-WW II. Hitler than superseded the weak democratic process in Germany when President Hindenburg died to rawly seize power; stage a fire blamed on the Jews of the German Parliament, which Parliament Hitler then abolished/closed down for the rest of Hitler's mean and hate filled lifetime.
