How Iran war is leading to economic depression, starvation and WW3
Bombing Iran into submission or regime change fundamentally misunderstands the Islamic Republic’s internal dynamics. Quite the contrary: external bombardments generate powerful nationalism. The U.S. and Israeli decapitation strikes validate the regime’s decades-long narrative that foreign powers seek to destroy the Iranian nation. Faced with the reality of foreign bombs, the Iranian populace prioritizes national survival over political reform. Furthermore, the initial air raids failed to dismantle the regime’s deeply entrenched domestic security apparatus. The elimination of the supreme leadership empowered the most radical, security-focused elements of the IRGC and the Basij militia to seize absolute control. Despite its decapitation, or perhaps emboldened by it, the state possesses the institutional resilience to violently suppress any budding opposition movements, rendering a successful bottom-up revolution in the midst of a foreign war highly improbable. Destroying the state’s cent...