We’ve had countless pronouncements over the years about the demise of the Iranian regime. The terror unleashed this time by the clerics in Tehran — with estimates of 10,000 to 20,000 killed and more than 10,000 detained in recent protests — makes things different.
The clerical dictatorship has an expiration date, which is now near. One way to think of an accelerated timetable is to ask whether the Russians and Chinese are ready to abandon Tehran.
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