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Source: https://english.alarabiya.net/views/2026/01/15/is-iran-truly-ready-to-change
Is Iran Ready to End Its External Interventions?
(Al Arabiya) Abdulrahman al-Rashed - The Iranian regime is facing an existential crisis for the first time since its founding. The regime stubbornly adopted the nuclear project despite the clear impossibility of being allowed to possess it. Today, it is paying the price and finds itself standing at the finish line, stripped naked, without nuclear deterrence. The regime also persistently adopted projects of external change and the export of chaos, declaring them official state policy. We are now witnessing the collapse of most of the external revolutionary project. Very little time remains for the regime to take courageous decisions. It can spare itself destruction by retreating from its hostile policies toward countries in the region, dismantling the military institutions that were built to create chaos and threaten neighbors, and refraining from imposing its will on the peoples of the region. Ending the nuclear program and external activity are capable of sparing Iran foreign intervention. The writer is the chairman of Al Arabiya's editorial board and former editor-in-chief of Asharq al-Awsat.