With internal unrest, economic strain, and mounting military pressure, Iran’s 47-year-old regime may be nearing a historic turning point—shaking the region and beyond.
Have weapons become more important than the Lebanese, especially the southerners? While reliance on resistance proved effective for decades, the results of the last war overturned this equation. Hezbollah's weapons no longer serve the southerners.
The collapse of the “democratic peoples” experiment could drive the Kurds back toward greater isolation, with developments expected to favor the more hardline wings in Qandil.