>>507825880It could go a few different ways:
1) old regime supporters win the election, US did all that shit for nothing
2) Islamist parties banned, new secular regime has zero legitimacy, loses to insurgents
3) US cuts a deal with a group of Islamists willing to follow their lead on foreign policy and letting US corporations loot, secularists knifed in the back again (ala Afghanistan until it got overthrown, Iraq)
4) A genuinely secular opposition takes power after the elections... and doesn't give America what they want, because the Palestinian cause is popular, no one actually wants to sell off the country's oil to burgers on the cheap, and the far left is probably the biggest non-Islamic opposition in the country
The idea that Iranians will just vote to become an obedient US/Israel client state is a fantasy.