Iran Won’t Evolve, It Must Be Shoved: What Arash Azizi Refuses to Admit

There’s a peculiar habit among exiled intellectuals: mistaking the regime that exiled them for a misunderstood uncle rather than what it is—a sadistic cartel running a prison camp called Iran.

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Arash Azizi, in a recent Washington Post piece, insists the Islamic Republic must not be toppled by foreign pressure. He pargues that Israel’s airstrikes are harming the cause of internal reform, that outside help will fracture Iran, and that with just a bit more patience, the regime will evolve once Khamenei dies.

That’s not a strategy. That’s theology. 

Azizi isn’t presenting a plan. 

He’s lighting candles in a mausoleum.

Fantasy Is Not Foreign Policy

Azizi speaks of internal reform as if it’s a menu option if only the

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