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We attacked Iran with no clear plan for regime change, Israeli security sources say
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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The Israel/US plan was to kill the Ayatollah and Iran state would collapse without a supreme leader.
Iran's plan to martyr the Ayatollah and fight asymmetrically with decentralized leadership.
Iran's plan is better than the Israel/US plan.
Maybe they should have learned from Lt Gen Van Riper instead of giving each other celebratory blowjobs of winning a rigged war game.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/that-time-a-marine-general-led-a-fictional-iran-against-the-us-military-and-won/
The leaders of Israel and the US both operate under the principles of personal rule, where the individual personal relation to the person in charge is what defines the political structure.
Iran, as many modern states (including, for the most part, the US) seems to mostly operate as an institutionalist government, where it's the institutional role a given person takes that defines their relation to other roles within that system, independently of the persons occupying them (for better or for worse).
If you kill the leader, another person will assume that role, and whoever deferred to the previous leader will (usually) defer to the new leader as well.
Of course there is always a personal element to it and these options aren't a strict binary (just like , but part of the reason even Trump's most insane orders are obeyed is because the people obeying them obey the president rather than just a given person. That obedience is, in this case, both critical to the system functioning at all and a major issue if the president is a maniac.
The personal factor here comes in when the other offices supposed to check the president refuse to for personal reasons, which is why Trump can hold a de facto personalist regime, but it's also why he attempts to undermine all institutional elements to cement that personalist character.