Iran: Fixing Iran Is Futile

August 24, 2026: The progress of this year’s Iran war has proven perplexing for America and its Persian Gulf allies. Weeks of bombing Iran have had no effect on the Iranian government or its ability to continue firing missiles and drones at regional targets. In other countries, this tends to be because the population is either inspired to respond to the attackers or tacitly supports its government in defending the nation rather than demonstrating against it. Neither of those factors is present in Iran, where 80-90% of the population hate the corrupt mullah regime and its security forces to the extent that most Iranians have ceased being Isla…