Targeted attacks launched by Israel with the US in June on Iranian nuclear sites “set back the regime,” the report said, but “it has not eliminated the strategic and security threats posed by the regime.” It appears to support the Iranian opposition instead, as it is “culturally liberal and yearns for freedom,” but concedes the Islamic Republic’s “ability to coopt and quell the opposition creates for itself greater risk as cultural opposition and economic discontent inform one another.” “And in so doing, it contains the best prescription for both resolving the threat the Iranian regime poses to the international community, and to its own people.”
Author: Chris Harris
Published at: 2025-08-30 21:47:19
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