Laura Rozen asks us to guess who thought up the plan to do a study of how to destabilize Iran by recruiting non-Persian ethnic groups living along its border.  My guess is the same infamous foreign policy wonks that thought the Soviet Union would be brought down by dropping weapons to non-existent partisans in places like Latvia and the Ukraine pretty much up until the fall of the Berlin Wall.  I'll give you a hint: they're just coming off planning a major military and strategic blunder and looking to do something along the same lines.