Prolonged Conflict Consolidates Iran's Regime Domestically, Analyst Says
Analyst Mehran Kamrava of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies argues that Iran's government is leveraging three key pressure points against the United States: sanctions, its nuclear programme, and control over the Strait of Hormuz. Counterintuitively, he contends that the longer the conflict persists, the less unpopular the Islamic Republic becomes at home, as ongoing war allows the regime to tighten its grip on the population.