For forty-five years the Middle East has been organized around one assumption: the Islamic Republic of Iran is permanent.

But what if it isn’t?

If the regime in Tehran were to fall tomorrow, the entire strategic architecture of the region would change overnight.

And one of the most dramatic consequences may be something few people are even discussing:

The collapse of the Middle East’s longest war against Israel.

For decades the Iranian regime built an entire foreign policy around Israel’s destruction. Tehran financed, armed, and directed proxy militias such as Hamas and Hezbollah as the front lines of that strategy.

Those groups were never merely local actors.

They were pillars of a regional project.

Remove the project, and the........

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