The Iranian Regime Has Already Fallen. The New Regime Is Worse.
July 2, 2025
By: Brandon J. Weichert
Iran’s new leaders are younger, but they are just as religiously devout—and far more brazen than were their older predecessors assassinated in the opening days of the war.
Since the start of the recent Israel-Iran War, Israel’s highest authorities have opined widely about the need for regime change in Iran. Rightly perceiving the Islamic Republic as a grave threat to Israeli security, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his fellow Likud Party members believe fervently that nothing short of removing the Islamist regime that has ruled Iran since 1979 will bring peace. The Americans are far more ambivalent on this point.
What Netanyahu and his team have failed to grasp is that regime change has already come to Iran. But the new regime that controls Tehran is little different than the old—and is probably equally unacceptable to Israel in the long term.
Ayatollah Khamenei Is No Longer at the Wheel
In classic Mideast fashion, the regime change came, but not in the form that was expected or hoped for in the West. Nor was the regime change in Tehran a bloody affair. It was brought about willingly by the religious clerics who had ruled Iran since 1979 in response to the brutal Israeli airstrikes on Iran.
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