Plan

The Islamic Republic is living inside its collapse plan. That is not evidence of resilience. It is evidence that the system is collapsing.

What many observers read as signs of endurance, continued missile fire, street repression, state broadcasting, leadership succession, and other visible signs of continuity, do not show a regime that has absorbed the shock. They show a regime falling back on the emergency mechanisms it built for the moment its center was hit and its command structure began to fracture.