The 2026 strikes on Tehran have done more than degrade military infrastructure — they exposed a regime already running out of leadership. As the effects of Operation Epic Fury come into focus, the Islamic Republic increasingly resembles a system still standing but stripped of the people capable of sustaining it.

Iran’s problem is no longer just external pressure. It is internal depletion.

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