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Maybe a better option would be to use western intelligence capabilities to sneak a few thousand automatic rifles through the border into Iran so that protesters would have something to push back government forces, instead of stating the obvious by lighting up a useless tower on another continent? >

Well pack it in Iran, the eiffiel tower is lit.  You know what that means...that this is the bare minimum France (or any country) is really willing to do to help. >

Iran is one of the most sanctioned countries on earth. Anything short of invasion wouldn’t really do much and nobody wants Iraq 10x >

it more a point of how useless these symbolic gestures are >

It’s good to keep the chatter up; no doubt some iranians  will see this picture and know that the outside world is aware of what they are doing.