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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22733/iran-thinking-the-unthinkable
Iran: Thinking about Regime Change
(Gatestone Institute) Amir Taheri - The Islamic Republic founded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was supposed to last until the return of the Mahdi at the end of time. However, a year after the current phase of the 47-year war between the Islamic Republic and the U.S. started, regime change is openly evoked inside Iran and in the 8-million-strong diaspora. Last week, in an interview on Iranian state television, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed that last December a nationwide uprising had pushed the nation to the edge of regime change. He noted that several cities, among them Mash'had, the second most populous in Iran, had been on the verge of falling under the control of protesters. At the time, other towns and cities, notably Bushehr in the south and Qazvin in the north, had also appeared on the edge of being taken over by protesters. The writer was the executive editor-in-chief of the daily Kayhan in Iran from 1972 to 1979.