Why the West Misreads Iran’s Resilience. By Raghu Kondori in The Times of Israel

For nearly half a century, Western capitals have predicted the collapse of the Islamic Republic. Every major crisis has been interpreted as the beginning of the end: the Iran-Iraq War, student uprisings, the Green Movement, the maximum pressure campaign, the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, economic crises, regional confrontations, assassinations of senior military figures, and internal factional rivalries. The prediction changes. The conclusion remains the same. This time, the regime will fall. Yet the system survives.This persistence is usually explained through familiar concepts:

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