Over the past few weeks, Iranian skies have become the domain of American and Israeli aircraft. The U.S. and Israel have carried out thousands of strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran, targeting its ballistic-missile capabilities, nuclear facilities, and bastions of domestic oppression. Though these strikes have been immensely successful, the strategic impact of the U.S.-Israel-Iran war remains unclear.
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour’s essay “After the Ayatollah” provides an excellent analysis of the current strategic situation of the war. More importantly, Mansour predicts that the war will permanently change the political and ideological landscape of the Middle East. In his words: “Khamenei is dead. The Islamic Republic is over. The utopian vision of political Islam is largely no more.”
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