Stalin established a hideous system of slavery inside his empire--the Gulag Archipelago, a series of concentration camps of barbarism and death that defy comprehension.
So in his view, the Iranian people who risk death to defy the regime every day, the Iranian people who revile Ahmadinejad as "the chimpanzee, " and call for Khamenei's death from their rooftops every evening, will rally around the chimp and the dictator if the US or Israel attacks Iran's nuclear installations.