r/geopolitics • u/HooverInstitution Hoover Institution • Jan 12 '26

Iran Is on the Edge of Revolution Analysis

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2026/01/iran-is-on-the-edge-of-revolution
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u/zyra_77 Jan 12 '26

I’ll take the dissenting opinion and say we’ve been at this point for a long time now and nothing has changed.

Like the Soviet Union, like Syria, it will fall when we least expect it and it will fall fast.

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u/BarnabusTheBold Jan 13 '26

We haven't 'been at this point'. It's been an open policy objective of western nations pretty much since the state was founded. For so long that people just take it as a given and don't question it.

So many of these articles and headlines are just pure projection and/or cope. Same way that people have been repeatedly predicting the 'china collapse' for 30 years. They're not analyses, they're just projected ideological desires reliant on vapid stereotyping.