“Western intentions are clear: Bringing about Iran’s economic collapse, in the hopes that this will prompt the fall of the Ayatollah regime. An experiment of such scope had not been undertaken in the modern era, even not against the former Soviet Union.

Yet instead of securing a compromise before its economy collapses, and before the many minorities and dissidents hit the streets, Iran continues to fortify itself and pretend that everything is fine. How long can it persist? Is the Soviet Union’s fate waiting for Iran around the corner?”

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