ANALYSIS
“Iranians aren’t ‘finally’ waking up and ‘getting wise,’ as Trump suggests. Instead, Iran has a dynamic and active civil society, which has created and embraced opportunities for reformation and progress for decades,” Ariane Tabatabai writes for the Atlantic.
“If Iranians do choose to rise up and push aside their government, it will not be the result of support from Washington,” CFR’s Philip H. Gordon writes for the New York Times.
“However the events on the streets unfold, their most immediate casualty will be the presidency of Hassan Rouhani and its false claim of pragmatic governance,” write Mark Dubowitz and CFR’s Ray Takeyh for the Wall Street Journal.
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