[Spruce]

Iran is the head of the Snake. The current regime there will not last beyond this year.

[JSteff]

"The current regime there will not last beyond this year."

They are a religious thugocracy with their fingers in most of the controls of a nation with oil income. That means they control the purse strings to the incomes of a large part of the population.

The religious part means they are revered by a large chunk of the population too. For citizens it is one thing to topple a government but to slice into their own pay and risk eternal damnation is another.

The only we the government there goes down is when Jimma Carter admits he made a mistake and asks them to leave. In other words they are not leaving soon.