Iran’s greatest threat isn’t Washington. It’s the generation that refuses to bow.

While Western policymakers obsess over centrifuges, sanctions, and proxy militias, they are staring past the Islamic Republic’s greatest existential threat: its own children. Iran is no longer a revolutionary state; it is a terrified, cornered theocracy clinging to power, frightened not of American warships or Israeli jets alone, but of teenagers with smartphones, dreams of changing their country, and an unbending refusal to inherit their parents’ chains. More than 60 per cent of Iran’s population is under 30. They did not march in 1979. They did not chant for Khomeini when he descended from the plane upon his arrival from Paris. They do not see holiness in turbans or salvation in martyrs’ graves. With eyes flaming red, they see only […]