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Regime change in Iran is underway — and it won’t be easy

It’s rare that the citizens of a country under attack venture into the streets to cheer the enemy’s bombs, but that’s what happened in Iran in the hours after the United States and Israel launched a comprehensive attack on the ruling regime.

In parts of Tehran and other cities, ordinary Iranians celebrated news that the regime’s “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been eliminated.

The death of Khamenei — the Middle East’s longest-serving dictator, in power since 1989 — is a moment of extraordinary significance.

It may yet result in the unraveling of the Islamic Republic that has reigned Iran for nearly half a century.

Regime change is no longer whispered in Washington. It’s openly discussed.

For 47 years, Washington has tried everything short of it to tame the Islamic Republic.

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Diplomacy. Sanctions. Concessions. “Engagement.” Military deterrence.

Every approach........

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