How the Iranian Regime is Still Standing
The regime that refuses to die
More than a month of relentless bombardment, a decapitated leadership, a collapsing economy, and still the Islamic Republic stands. The question I keep coming back to: has Washington fundamentally misread how this system dies?
Weeks into Operation Epic Fury, Iran has lost its supreme leader to a joint American-Israeli strike, buried much of its top military command, watched ballistic missile launches drop 90 percent from their Day One peak, and endured a communications blackout that has left ordinary citizens in the dark.
“Their navy has gone, their air force is gone,” President Trump declared. “Most of their military is gone.”
Yet United States intelligence assessments conclude that the Tehran regime faces no imminent collapse and its leadership structure is largely intact.
Here is why.
