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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/09/trump-iran-victory-regime-collapse/
An End to the War in Iran Would Hasten the Regime's Decay
(Washington Post) Dennis Ross - It's not clear how much time Tehran has. Before the war, the Iranian regime had no answers to any of its fundamental governance failings that produced the public uprisings in December and January. When the war fully ends, it will be even less able to deal with water and electricity cutoffs, a currency that has no value, endemic corruption and the increasing difficulty of daily life. The Iranian public will not remain quiescent for long. But the inner contradictions of the Islamic Republic will in time either produce an Iranian Gorbachev to try to avert regime collapse, or it will collapse outright. Ending the war may paradoxically hasten that day, and therefore ultimately produce a strategic win. The writer, a former chief U.S. Middle East peace negotiator, is the counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.