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Iran after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Proponents of foreign intervention in Iran are unlikely to get the sudden rupture and regime change they hope for.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting with students in Tehran, Iran, November 2, 2024.

Sanctions are not a humane alternative to war

Without built-in health protections, sanctions kill civilians as surely as bombs and bullets.

FILE - Bottles of medicine ride on a conveyor belt at a mail-in pharmacy warehouse in Florence, N.J., on July 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Guess who the Western sanctions on Iran have crippled? The middle class

Sanctions have destroyed the Iranian middle class – the very driver of stability and moderation.

Members of the United Nations Security Council vote.