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BOLTON: “Yeah, it would not require boots on the ground. What this should be doing is destroying the state institutions like the Revolutionary Guard, the Quds Force, the Basiji militia, that have the capability of threatening us, threatening Israel and the Gulf Arabs, threatening the people of Iran. And by diminishing those state institutions, you destabilize the government, you permit fractures to occur among the leadership. We’ve already fractured a lot of it by killing nearly 500 of the top leaders. This should allow the opposition, if we are working and cooperating with them, to begin to find others in the regime who say this ship is going down, I don’t think I want to go down with it. People in the regular military, not the Revolutionary Guard. That continues the fracturing of the regime, which then collapses. That’s not what we’re doing. That’s what people inside Iran would do.”