Peace is the Noose Around the Regime’s Neck

Over the past four decades, the dominant policy in the West was the attempt to change the regime’s behavior. However, this produced the exact opposite results, as it ultimately paved the way for war. Now, a question of paramount importance has emerged: what is the truly correct and principled policy?

The course of events clearly demonstrates that:

– As long as this regime remains in power, the region will never see peace and tranquility.

– No matter how much financial resources and commercial contracts it receives, it will never abandon its warmongering.

– It is a profound mistake to believe that a day will ever come when this regime abandons its hostility toward Iranian society and the international community to embrace peace and coexistence.

Such a thing has not occurred in forty-eight years, and it never will. This is not due to mere madness or blind fanaticism but is rather based on a calculated political survival strategy. The remnants of the regime know better than anyone else that any retreat from suppression, war, terrorism, and nuclear weapons would swiftly lead to their overthrow.

Abbas Araqchi, the regime’s current foreign minister, has stated: “If we take a single step back, there is no telling how far we will be forced to retreat.” He added, “This, in my view, is our greatest challenge.”

I must emphasize that any policy failing to comprehend this existential challenge of the regime cannot provide a viable answer to the Iranian question. This is because such a policy fails to recognize that this regime sits atop a powder keg of public anger and discontent.

Furthermore, it overlooks the deep and irresolvable conflict raging within the regime over whether to end or continue the war, a division that directly threatens its very survival.

It overlooks the fact that peace acts as a noose around the regime’s neck, and that if forced to choose, it would prefer war a hundred times over peace. Most importantly, it turns a blind eye to the reality that an organized movement of resistance units, in synergy with popular uprisings, is the real force for change in Iran.

The notion that the regime’s survival of a war means it has grown stronger is also false. This is merely a false narrative that the regime itself is desperately trying to project.

The chronic tensions and existential threats in which the regime is currently floundering, especially the public outrage and discontent that fueled the January uprising, are far more severe than ever before.

The nation’s economy is in free fall, while inflation, unemployment, and poverty run rampant. Politically, Khamenei’s son utterly lacks his father’s influence to contain the divisions within the ruling establishment, leaving the regime increasingly fragile by the day.

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