The new thing that's been happening since the 2005 presidential election is that we have a new generation of Revolutionary Guards, military men, who are coming to power. Some people argue that they simply want to change the political structure of the regime and get rid of the clergy, and we'd have a kind of Pakistani-style of authoritarian politics.
In my view, Iran is not Pakistan. This is wishful thinking for these guys. This is not going to happen, thanks to the rich history of the democratic movement. But for some reason some of them really want it. On the other hand, we know how powerful some of these clerics are and we know the power struggle between Iran's neo-conservatives, led by Ahmadinejad and Mr. Khameini, versus traditional conservatives, as well as Hashemi Rafsanjani and others.
I don't think they can get rid of the clerics at this point.