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Source: https://spectator.com/article/did-the-iran-war-work/
Did the Iran War Work?
(Spectator-UK) Vahid Beheshti - The Iranian regime, with its nuclear capabilities and ballistic stockpile severely downgraded, is the weakest it has been in its 47 years. I fled the regime myself 28 years ago, and have coordinated protests from within and outside the country, including the bloodiest ones earlier this year which saw tens of thousands of my fellow countrymen slaughtered. Despite relentless IRGC propaganda, the regime is on the brink. You can tell that the regime is worried about its viability. The IRGC and police are out on the streets. Checkpoints are everywhere. The regime knows that the appetite for an uprising has never been higher. Executions are being used to spread fear. These are not the actions of a government in control. With the economy destroyed, inflation rampant and 70% below the poverty line, the lifting of some sanctions will do very little to alleviate this fact as the regime is likely to funnel cash into restoring Iran's military capabilities and rearming its proxies. But the regime of Ayatollah Khamenei has now been dismantled. The Islamic Republic that we have all known for 47 years no longer exists. What stands in its place is a disunited, vengeful regime that knows it is vulnerable. Like all dictatorships before it, it will eventually collapse. This war set its conclusion in motion. The writer is an Iran-born British journalist and the founder of Iran Front.