Regime Change Could Bring Iran Freedom, Dignity and Hope

Relentlessly Keep Iran on Defensive for Regime Change

Thousands gathered recently across many cities in Iran to mark the end of a traditional mourning commemorating thousands murdered in the hands of the Islamic Republic since the start of the year.

The Wall Street Journal reported that in the central city of Abdanan "a large crowd on Tuesday chanted "Death to Khamenei" during an outdoor memorial ceremony at the local cemetery…Security forces responded by opening fire on the mourners."

Abdanan is not the only place where the state and its henchmen unleashed barbarity on citizens, unarmed and mourning.

Since January, at least 53,000 people have been apprehended by the state apparatus for the simple crime of participating in a protest march, waving flags and signs of solidarity, or having the temerity to wish an end to the theocratic regime.

At least 7,000 died from bullet wounds or were tortured to death inside Iran’s notorious prisons since January, according to human rights groups.

The circle of death keeps churning under the Islamic Republic that has ruled Iran for forty-seven years. Every time people dare to think that enough is enough, a life not worth living is worth dying to escape from, the state obliges in a volley of bullets, electric shocks, merciless beatings that do not spare even women or the youth.

If all else fails, there are always the gallows after a sham trial where the regime does not even pretend to provide a due process.

The regime does because the regime can.

This time it may be different.

This time the regime is on the defensive, externally at least. For one, Iran lost its network of state and non-state agents of terror and chaos in the region.

In June 2025 we bombed nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, crippling Iran's nuclear capacity in a remarkable show of military supremacy.

Success of relentless Israeli clandestine activity probed that the worst of the worst are dead men walking.

If there were to be a confrontation of tactical kind, Iran would enter the ring hobbled with a huge gash that is unmistakably the result of the Islamic regime’s own designs.

The biggest change on the horizon is just beyond the line of sight in the Persian Gulf and in neighboring states.

A massive U.S. armada, our biggest in decades, found its way in the region, including two aircraft carriers with hundreds of aircraft and each with a flotilla of support and combat ships. The U.S. moved aircraft, refueling + jamming capacity and defensive arsenal to locations in friendly nations.

In the last two months after agents of the Islamic Republic started butchering innocent protesters on the streets of Tehran and elsewhere, President Trump gave an ultimatum and ushered in the biggest US military presence since the Gulf War.

It's possible a controlled military campaign will start in a week or two.

The regime is not completely oblivious. They are blowing hot and cold at the same time.

It is carrying out military exercises inside her borders and in the ocean and activated ‘mosaic protocol’ giving local commanders carte blanche if the regime is decapitated.

Senior leaders have gone into bunkers from where they order murderous campaigns. Regime's representatives in Switzerland continue to report "great" progress when U.S. negotiators report instinctive stonewalling by Iran.

Islamic Republic needs a deal – any deal - to survive, regroup, recoup, resource, and revenge. Nothing would make the regime happier than reach a bad deal – or a disastrous one like the JCPOA - and have the armada turn back.

We cannot let it happen.

The U.S. must do the right thing.

U.S. Amb. to Israel Mike Huckabee was quoted recently on what a "good deal" might be. It "begins with no nuclear weapons, no enrichment. Also, the Iranian regime must quit killing its own people in the streets. And we must talk about the large quantity of ballistic missiles that they've been building up," he said. I would go further.

The Islamic Republic is an anomaly to Iran, a land of grace and beauty, of Hafez, Rumi, Omar Khayyam, and others.

Regime is an insult to the promise and the aspiration of her highly educated population. The currency has reached a nadir; the economy is in shambles because of the regime's intransigence.

All sanctioned trade is monopolized by the regime's cronies.

People cannot put their education and training to work, and the regime couldn't care less.

Iranians want to live free with dignity, with promise, with hope.

Women of Iran want to breathe. That is anathema to the Islamic Republic. The regime needs to go. It was gauche to even talk of its removal under your predecessors, President Trump. No longer. The Armada of Peace and Promise you brought along Iran’s shores can make it happen. Please do not hold back and do the right thing.

Partha Chakraborty, Ph.D., CFA is an economist, a statistician, and a financial analyst by training. Currently he is an entrepreneur in Water technologies, Blockchain and Wealth Management in US and India. Dr. Chakraborty is based in Southern California. Read more Partha Chakraborty's Insider articles — Click Here Now.​