Johns Hopkins Professor: Iran Regime Change Is a ‘Fantasy,’ People Don’t Rebel When There’s Bombs over Their Heads

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NASR: "I think it was — it was a fantasy and a hope that actually was never tested with evidence of history everywhere else. People don't usually rebel in the middle of a war when bombs are falling on their head. There was no love lost for the Islamic Republic when the -- when the war started, given the massacres that happened in Iran in January and the unhappiness of the people. But first of all, Iranians are not organized around the political movement that can keep their rage going, can channel it into politics. Secondly, the war basically created a crisis for Iranians on a daily basis. And then as the war went on, it became very clear to the majority of the Iranians that war is not liberating, it's not — the Islamic Republic is not going to go anytime soon, and the United States and Israel are not there to look after their safety. They're actually bombing their neighborhoods. They're bombing their hospitals, their universities, their historical sites. This is increasingly a war against Iran.”