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The "Deal" in Iran Is Regime Change
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - All that has happened since June 2025 makes the new search for a deal with Iran a dubious quest. In June, Iran's nuclear program and top military echelon were devastated by Israeli and then U.S. strikes, which exposed Iran's weakness, penetration by Israeli intelligence, and vulnerability by air. In December and January, the Iranian people rose up to demand an end to their regime's failed rule. The regime subsequently massacred its own people by the thousands. Before June's 12-day war, President Trump gave Ayatollah Khamenei two months to dismantle his nuclear program. The Supreme Leader refused, so Jerusalem and Washington did it for him. Concessions now on the enrichment of nuclear fuel - if the regime is even willing to make them - are far less meaningful. The U.S. has also demand limits on Iran's missile program and an end to its support for terrorist proxies. Both are fine ideas, but they would amount to paper promises that the ayatollah would be unlikely to honor. This regime is willing to impoverish and endanger its own country to pursue a "death to America" and "death to Israel" foreign policy. It is a regime bent on spreading revolution, not on living peacefully with its neighbors.