The Surprising Resilience of the Iranian Regime and the Prospect of Regime Change ©"Mojtaba Khamenei and his son at the Victory of the Revolution rally", Iran, 8 June 2018. Photo by Hamed Malekpour / Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0 As a tenuous ceasefire takes hold, the aim of liberation and regime change that sat at the centre of the United States’ intervention in Iran has quietly been abandoned. Throughout the five-week conflict, defanging the deeply unpopular regime was seem

Recipe for a Molotov Cocktail Step 1: Violate international law and attack a country under the guise of protecting civilians and neutralising the threat of a nuclear weapon that has been 2 weeks away from completion for the past 30 years. The morning of February 28th, sirens blasted all over West Asia as the U.S. and Israel launched a series of coordinated attacks in Iran, including missiles striking a girls' primary school in Minab that killed 165 girls, most of whom were