Email from Zionist Organization of America   ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA IN THE MEDIA     Regime Change is a Strategic Necessity - The Investigative Project on Terrorism By Potkin Azarmehr (June 23, 2025 | IPT) The mainstream media has been obsessed with the fear of regime change ad nauseam for 2 weeks now. Every day another headline appears making the same exact unoriginal argument that God forbid Israel or the United States contemplate regime change in Iran, it would open the gates of hell. The Washington Post has run more than 7 pieces warning about regime change in Iran. With the bombing by the U.S. of Iranian nuclear sites, the anti-regime change lobby has reached a crescendo of false warnings. The current story in Time Magazine has the screaming headline, "In Bombing Iran, Trump Looked Past 80 Years of U.S. Regime Change Mistakes." A recent NBC News piece argues that U.S.-led regime change is doomed to fail, pointing to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya as cautionary tales. The piece, while emotionally resonant, is intellectually shallow — a retreat into historical fatalism rather than a meaningful engagement with facts or the present geopolitical reality. Worse, it arrives at a time when U.S. airstrikes against Iranian nuclear installations have radically altered the strategic landscape; the conversation is no longer whether regime change in Iran is a viable option — but whether it is an urgent necessity. NBC's piece offers no constructive vision for confronting what happens if the regime remains in place. Its argument rests on a selective reading of history that reduces complex interventions to simplistic failures while completely ignoring the dramatically different context in Iran today. Iraq in 2003, Afghanistan post-2001, and Libya in 2011 were all deeply flawed efforts — not because regime change is inherently unworkable, but because those missions were undermined by strategic incoherence, poor planning, and willful ignorance of on-the-ground realities. To cite these examples as irrefutable proof that regime change must never be attempted again is not analysis — it's paralysis. And that paralysis emboldens regimes like Iran's, which are not only internally repressive but externally aggressive, funding terrorism and threatening regional and global stability. Such fatalistic analysis only helps these regimes to think they are undefeatable and encourages them to continue with more brutal internal repression. Continue Reading   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email   DONATE   www.zoa.org   Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2025. All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave 31 B | New York, NY 10017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice