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The Regime's Humiliation Cannot Be Hidden from the Iranian People
(Telegraph-UK) Charles Lipson - Will Iran's theocratic regime survive its humiliation at the hands of what the Ayatollah's regime calls the "Zionist entity"? The sources of that humiliation cannot be hidden from the Iranian people, despite the regime's efforts to keep the information from them. They know about the regime's defeat and its inability to control the skies over its own country. They know the defeat came mainly at the hands of a Jewish state one tenth of Iran's size. They know the Israelis struck Iranian targets at will. And they know the regime's costly, decades-long project to dominate the Middle East has failed. Its proxy network has been smashed and so have the mullahs' efforts to spread Shia Islam by force. Those disasters are too big to hide, even for a totalitarian regime. Nor can it hide its isolation. None of its proxies could help in its hour of need because Israel had already decimated them. Nor did help come from Iran's Great Power allies, Russia and China. They stayed silent. The result is that Iran's Grand Strategy, like its military infrastructure, lies in ruins. The writer is Professor of Political Science emeritus at the University of Chicago.