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secretly supporting regime change. In response, the accused almost always deny it. ey
don’t want regime change, they insist: they just want the Islamic Republic’s theocrats to
change their behavior.
But no such transformation will ever take place, because the Iranian regime remains a
revolutionary movement that will never accommodate the United States. at is why regime
change is not a radical or reckless idea but the most pragmatic and e ective goal for U.S.
policy toward Iran—indeed, it is the only objective that has any chance of meaningfully
reducing the Iranian threat.
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