The End of the Ayatollah, Seen by Iranians and Americans—In Pictures
IT IS OTHERWISE COMING.
Business as usual
To be continued
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Judgment Day.
Women, Life, Liberty
Two Planes, One Regime: How the Islamic Republic Will End
The future of the Islamic Republic may ultimately depend on what kind of aircraft lands in Tehran first. One could carry diplomats and signal a quiet surrender of power. The other would arrive amid chaos and force. After forty years of repression, corruption, and regional violence, Iran’s ruling system now faces a choice it has long tried to postpone: a negotiated exit or a catastrophic collapse. Two radically different futures confront the Islamic Republic, both visible on the short- to mid-term horizon. In one scenario, a plane carrying senior U.S. officials—perhaps even Air Force One—lands in Tehran. Such an arrival would signal not reconciliation, but capitulation: the collapse of ideological rigidity and the beginning of an orderly dismantling of the regime itself. It would mean the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps relinquishing their four-decade grip on Iran’s wealth—assets systematically looted, embezzled, and diverted to violent proxies across the Midd...
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