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Israel's Strike Hasn't Led Iranians to a Nationalist Pro-Regime Response
(Wall Street Journal) John Bolton - Despite outward appearances of solid authoritarianism, the regime in Tehran faces widening discontent. There is widespread outrage at the corruption and self-enrichment of senior clerics and flag officers (and their families) in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and regular military. Untold billions of dollars were spent over decades to empower terrorist proxies (Hamas, Hizbullah and the Houthis), to prop up Bashar al-Assad's regime, and to undertake massive nuclear and missile projects that now lie in ashes. Significantly, since Israeli attacks began, there has been no spontaneous rush of Iranian nationalism, as pro-regime Western apologists long prophesied. The people of Iran know what is actually at stake. The writer served as White House national security adviser and U.S. ambassador to the UN.