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Victor Davis Hanson: Iran’s Regime Is Running Out of Options

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02.10.2026

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Victor Davis Hanson: Iran’s Regime Is Running Out of Options

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Sami Winc: Iran, let’s turn to. It looks like internal strife is increasing, not because of the protesters out there, although I’m sure there are some. The women are openly defying the hijab in universities. 

Victor Davis Hanson: They are. Daily, daily they do. 

Sami Winc: But their administration knows it because they’ve increased patrols and checkpoints in fear of the protests from universities.  

Victor Davis Hanson: For all you people who are worried and have sworn the war is lost, Robert Kagan, the whole left-wing media, what are you going to say when the people rise up? Three things are going to happen, and they’re not necessarily mutually exclusive. 

Number one, the people are going to rise up, and this time when they try to kill them, the U.S. will add air support. 

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Number two, they are so desperate for a deal. Today they said, “We have a deal, we have a deal.” You can’t trust anything they say, but they will basically give most of us what we want, and it won’t be worth anything. 

And number three, they will have a final fireworks October surprise, where they’ll call everybody up. How many drones you have in that mountain over there? Don’t we have a tunnel over there somewhere with six more missiles? We want them all to go at the Saudi oil field or something. 

And when that happens, he will unload on them, and the regime will be destroyed, conventionally. 

So it’s gonna be like Greenland. It’s going to be like the NATO problem. It’s gonna be solved, but it’s not gonna be solved in a way that’s gonna bring credit. It’s the most existential problem the United States has........

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