Opinions, The World
Wall Street Journal: Why Is Tehran’s Regime, and Others Like It, So Hard to Bring Down?
1- The war showed that Iran did not surrender quickly under U.S. and Israeli pressure, but held out for more than a month before reaching a cease-fire.
2- The secret of survival is not its military strength alone, but repression, propaganda, security institutions, and the normalization of losses inside authoritarian systems.
3- Iran, Russia, and North Korea are increasingly exchanging the tools of survival, from security technology to military and political support.