There is a sea of green on the streets of Tehran. Angry young Iranian men and women carry green banners and shout at the top of their lungs. They’re protesting the results of the 2009 Presidential election; accusing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of election fraud in his landslide defeat of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Recently the protests have turned violent.

Some call the events of the past week a coup, others a revolution. No one knows what the future holds for Iran and its people, but there is one thing we do know for sure about the events to come:

The environments will be fully destructible.

“We’re very excited to show off the capabilities of our platform,” one anonymous protestor posted on his twitter page. “We are many million strong and have many blunt objects at our disposal. Of course we don’t want to destroy Azadi tower. What good would that do us? But trust us when we say that it is fully capable of being broken into a thousand different pieces with many sledgehammers.”

Tehran is the largest city in the Middle East. It has the second largest population in the world with 18,587,453 people. It is home to hundreds of historic mosques, churches, synagogues and Zoroastrian fire temples, all of which will realistically crumble into nothingness when blown up with an RPG.

Amid bin Thuwaini, a Middle Eastern History professor at Berkeley, believes that Tehran may be even more destructible than once thought. “The city has grown exponentially since the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988. With that, there have been great improvements to the infrastructure. These are buildings that can take damage, fall apart, and collapse on the heads of the people inside.”

“Some buildings will yield valuable loot, like flamethrowers and Moltov cocktails” bin Thuwaini adds. “But most will just be filled with worthless junk, like priceless artifacts and the charred remains of whoever didn’t manage to get out of the building before you nuked it.”

The upcoming Iranian revolution promises to be a treat for fans of the sandbox genre, as there are no places that can’t be easily accessed if one doesn’t mind blowing through some guy’s living room. However, if you accidentally kill that man’s two children in the process, there will be a severe decrease in citizen morale. And we all know what that means: less power ups.

Though most gamers won’t be able to participate in the upcoming Iranian Revolution, they will be able to watch it through shaky handheld camera-phone footage that will be made available on YouTube and broadcast nonstop behind Wolf Blitzer.