{"id":189962,"date":"2025-06-16T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189962\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T21:21:09","slug":"will-irans-hated-regime-implode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189962\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Iran\u2019s hated regime implode?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Iran\u2019s regime is often described as decaying, corrupt, bankrupt and despised by its citizens. Is it about to collapse? Israel\u2019s shock-and-awe campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2025\/06\/15\/the-israel-iran-war-is-now-a-brutal-test-of-staying-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continues relentlessly<\/a>: on June 16th it said it had \u201cfull air supremacy over Tehran\u201d. Cars have streamed out of the city in recent days (pictured below). Its shops are shuttered. On social media some Iranians have celebrated the assasination of their generals with emojis of barbequed meat. The humiliation illuminates the failure of the regime\u2019s military strategy and, some hope, may trigger an uprising or a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, in turn creating chaos or national renewal. Yet Iran\u2019s default is to defy its aggressors, not to capitulate. And an extended war with large civilian casualties could act to rally public opinion in an intensely nationalistic country, allowing the regime to survive and redouble its efforts to race for a bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s regime is often described as decaying, corrupt, bankrupt and despised by its citizens. Is it about to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14,75433],"class_list":{"0":"post-189962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories","11":"tag-war-in-the-middle-east"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114695142293819770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}