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