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There seems to be so much public dissent in the country, that it only needs minor outside support for it to work. They have overthrown themselves before without much help.
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Ahem - this would be the same Iran in which moderate, democratic voices (viz. ones who don't want to establish Islamic theocracies everywhere) were beginning to be heard until a certain theocratic fundamentalist in the White House started banging on about Axes of Evil, at which point the moderates in Tehran no longer had a leg to stand on and got drowned out by those who now had evidence to support their previously nonsensical claim that the US were bent on restarting the Crusades.
It's instructive to note that the population of Iran voted (as in democratically voted, which isn't mentioned much by Bush as he tries to force democracy down the throats of the Iraqis with generous helpings of lead) overwhelmingly for the moderate Khatami as President (twice, in 1997 and 2001). He's been effectively on our side, he wants reform, democracy, better rights for women and less power for the mad mullahs, who are putting up a hell of a fight. We're not making his job any easier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Khatami
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as for Iran its likely that it is in 2005 the single most likely threat to the West.
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I think we're a far bigger threat to Iran than Iran is to us. Are you so short-memoried that you've forgotten about al-Qaeda, who after all have had rather a good 2004 and show no signs of going away? What do you base this bald assertion on, anyway? The same sources that gave you the inside gen on the North Korean car industry?