In Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, people are protesting against the power of the government of Iran. Too bad that many of them are protesting to demand subsidized fossil fuels. That's exactly the thing to kill billions of people, given time.

The article errs in equating Iranian influence with Shi'ite power. The Shi'ites are the majority in Iraq, by far, and they will surely continue to be the dominant group in Iraq whether Iran is involved or not. The crucial question is whether they will admit individual Sunnis on a basis of equality, or crush them to the point that they rebel yet again.