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If the people of Iran actually pull this off and toss the religious geriatric ward into the dustbin of history, we aren't just looking at a regime change; we're looking at a global tectonic shift. Imagine a Middle East where the primary export isn't terror proxies, but the ambition of a young, hyper-educated population that actually wants to join the 21st century.

With a median age of 35, few Iranians remember the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and with a geriatric population of hyperconservative mullahs and hardcore kleptocratic IGRC operators, the old magic is gone with a tide of economic failure and inflation wrecks hopes for the future.

An end to the Tehran-Moscow pipeline would leave Putin's "Special Military Failure" even more hollowed out than it already is. They provide a vast amount of technology to the Russian war effort.

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And let's be honest: a free, powerful Iran is the ultimate nightmare for the regional status quo. It winds down the Houthis, ends the Hamas and Hezbollah money pipeline, drops the risk of Persian Gulf energy shocks, and helps Saudi Arabia stamp out its own religious extremists. Lebanon and Syria come back to life as independent nations, and Iraq's Iranian intelligence penetration and chaotic militias lose their power.

It's bad news for Bibi, who loses his version of the "Great Satan" distraction, and even worse news for the Kremlin. It reduces the amount of money the U.S. pours into Israel as a strategic counterweight to Iran's current regime. China loses access to Iran's black market and low-cost oil. It's a win-win.

The Mullahs are a relic of a darker age, and their expiration date is long overdue. Trump talked tough against them a week ago, but on Thursday seemingly shrugged at the violence the Iranian government is deploying against protestors. Of course, the IGRC and the mullahs will deploy maximum violence, but this time it feels like the tide is shifting faster than even they can withstand.

It's time to see if America can remember how to root for actual freedom instead of just transactional strongmen.