Tim-Mullan

Neither the geo political area, the Islamic world, the United States, nor the world economy will tolerate the continuation of the current situation.  Even now, the post conflict retelling of this situation will require serious manipulation in order to be accommodated within the western and Islamic super egos.  If we progress very much farther, Israel will either need to be excommunicated (unthinkable) or the west will need to shift its moral base (also unthinkable), or an even larger news event would need to take center stage.  This is possible but right now, I think, unlikely as it would almost certainly be escalation in the Ukraine and that would mean use of nuclear warheads or invasion of Sweden or Finland.  Alternatively, a natural cataclysm... Again, unlikely but not impossible.

Unlikely, as previous protests will be at least partly the result of foreign interference and the Western states will have backed off so as not to further increase chaos and unpredictable outcomes (tinder keg).  Russia possibly has competing interests but overall, I posit they will be unlikely to attempt to escalate.  While internal elements will be pro protest and there is arguably more reason to protest now then normally, I believe the spirit of self protection and nationalism will win out over pro Islamic fervour and keep people in their homes.

Iran has developed a number of proxies through which to pursue armed conflict prayer is its national borders.  It will only enter into armed conflict it its own borders are directly threatened or some other unavoidable conflict

I simply can't envisage a scenario where this eventually might occur within the time constraints