If you had written the script a year ago, even seasoned geopolitical analysts would have laughed.

The Iranian regime collapsing from within. The terror apparatus decapitated. The Arab street not burning American flags but quietly acknowledging that Israel and the United States were right. Russia and China scrambling to protect a weakened ally. The Iranian diaspora celebrating in the streets from Los Angeles to London.

And Democrats in Washington, somehow, managing to defend the wrong side of history.

Call them the “impossibles.” The things the foreign policy priesthood said could not happen. The things we were warned would ignite World War III. The things that were supposedly too risky, too destabilizing, too bold.

President Trump didn’t listen.

And now the regime in Tehran is wobbling.

Let’s start with the most obvious fact: the head of the snake is gone.

For decades, Iran’s terror regime operated through proxies — Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria — exporting violence from Beirut to Buenos Aires. The clerical dictatorship funneled billions into destabilizing the Middle East while crushing dissent at home.

The removal of the regime’s most notorious architect of terror was not symbolic. It was strategic. It dismantled command structures. It shattered mythologies of invincibility. It sent a message to Tehran’s ayatollahs: your reach is not unlimited.

Critics warned that eliminating the regime’s top terror mastermind would ignite regional war. Instead, what followed was containment — and clarity.

Second “impossible”: the Arab street.

For decades, the narrative insisted that confronting Iran would unite the Muslim........

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