This moment is the clearest proof yet that the Islamic Republic is terminal. A regime that must bomb its own succession process to survive has already lost the plot. Every day the West hesitates is another day the IRGC consolidates control behind a weak new face.

A compelling argument on why war against the Islamic Republic is crucial for US security and democratic values.

The assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei​ in the early hours of the war​ has raised a simple but enormously consequential question: Who will replace him?

Targeting the Assembly is a strike that disrupts the succession process, and, more symbolically, it is a psychological strike at everything the Islamic Republic stands for.

Killing thousands of protesters last month was apparently not enough for the Islamic Republic, which followed up by arresting prominent internal critics, too. The Iranian regime wouldn’t have gone after these figures if it didn’t fear them—perhaps even as much as it fears the royalist movement that has surged around former Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.

Iranians are rising against censorship and digital inequality, demanding accountability from the Islamic Republic’s regime.

Washington: Reza Pahlavi, the exiled heir to Iran’s Peacock Throne, declared Sunday that the reported death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marks the functional collapse of the Islamic Republic,

Its collapse isn’t just about freeing a beleaguered population. It’s about dismantling a rule that has made the world unsafe for everyone.The post The reckoning of the Islamic Republic is

OP-ED. Researchers Jean-Pierre Digard, Bernard Hourcade and Yann Richard reflect on two centuries of opposition between Iran and the West, and question whether the current situation should be seen as a failure of the regime or of the Iranian nation itself.

"In times of war, the Islamic Republic of Iran will have the right to control the passage through the Strait of Hormuz," it said.