For years, analysts treated “regime change” like a fantasy—something you could cheer for but not plan for. Israel’s latest strikes suggest something different: a campaign that doesn’t merely degrade Iran’s missiles and air defenses, but breaks the regime’s grip on its own streets.
The real end game has always been regime change.
And Israel’s no longer pretending it wants anything less.
The targets tell you the strategy
Over the past 12-24 hours, Israeli warplanes struck dozens of Iranian internal security and Basij command centers in Tehran, alongside additional regime infrastructure used to maintain control and suppress the population.
The Basij is the blunt instrument the regime uses to intimidate neighborhoods, crush demonstrations, and enforce ideological obedience. By hitting that militia along with internal security headquarters, riot-control units, and intelligence nodes, Israel is working to dismantle the infrastructure of tyranny that so brutally put down recent anti-regime demonstrations.
Israel’s unmistakable message is that it’s not at war with the people of Iran, it’s at war with the regime that for half a century...
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