Welcome back to breaking history.

In this episode, we dive into Iran between its revolutions, and what this recent history tells us about what comes next for a regime wobbling after the 12-day war.

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Lee Harvey-Ord, Irming, Berlin.

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press today at thefp.com. Only a few weeks ago in the afterglow of America's bombing of three

critical Iranian nuclear sites, known as Operation Midnight Hammer. President Donald Trump let this

slip on truth social. It's not politically correct to use the term regime change, but if the

current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be a regime change?

For America's isolationists, it seemed that the president, who campaigned as the anti-war

candidate, had taken off the mask like the end of an episode of Scooby-Doo to reveal he was

John McCain all along.

But Trump has just acknowledged something that millions of Iranians have understood now for

at least a quarter century.

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