In his view, those steps alone would still leave intact the deeper engine of the threat: the Iranian regime itself, which has spent decades exporting terrorism, repression and instability across the Middle East and beyond.

According to Kedar, there is only one real answer to the central questions now facing the region — how to stop Iran’s global terror network, how to prevent the regime from rebuilding its strategic threats, and how to improve the human rights situation for the Iranian people. His conclusion is that only regime change in Tehran can produce a lasting solution.

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