Only Democracy Can End Iran’s Nuclear Threat

By Abbas Milani, Project Syndicate | June 18, 2025

Thanks to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran has spent almost four decades on a path to war with Israel, which he calls a “cancer” in the region that must be annihilated. Without a change of regime by the people of Iran, for the people of Iran, there can be no long-term stability and prosperity there and in the region.