Forty-six years after Iran's 1979 revolution, the Iranian regime's true Achilles' heel remains not foreign pressure or external war, but the growing power of its own people and their organized resistance. The mullahs' rulers—unelected and unaccountable—face a citizenry that is increasingly emboldened and defiant. With every new wave of protest, every strike, and every act of civil disobedience, the regime's response is not reform, but repression.
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