The Regime is closer to collapse than at any point since its founding in 1979. According to the Henry Jackson Society, the regime is crumbling under the weight of its own brutality: nearly 900 executions in 2025, devastating U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on its nuclear facilities, and an economy strangled by poverty, energy shortages, and rampant inflation. Experts now warn of chaos and even civil war if the free world does not act.
This is no longer just Iran’s crisis — it is a global emergency. While the world is distracted by the war in Ukraine, a storm is gathering in Tehran. America must be ready, and it must lead.
A REGIME ON THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS
The 12-Day War in June 2025 shattered the myth of the regime’s invincibility. Israeli strikes — backed quietly by Washington — destroyed missile and drone facilities, killed top IRGC commanders, and forced Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to retreat into a bunker. For the first time in decades, Iranians saw their rulers exposed, humiliated, and vulnerable.
The regime’s foundations are weakening: its nuclear program in ruins, its economy collapsing, and its people unafraid to defy it. The Regime is now a dictatorship trembling at its own shadow.
RECORD EXECUTIONS, RISING POVERTY, SPREADING FEAR
The Henry Jackson Society report documents the regime’s brutality with chilling precision: nearly 900 executions in 2025 — the highest in decades — as the state clings to power through fear.
At the same time, ordinary Iranians face a collapsing economy: soaring inflation, empty shelves, fuel shortages, and mass unemployment. The regime spends billions on militias and terror proxies abroad, while its own people live in poverty and darkness.
Fear has long been the regime’s last weapon. But the report makes clear: fear is no longer working. From the Mahsa Amini protests to the street chants of 2025, the Iranian people are refusing to be silenced.
KHAMENEI’S SHRINKING CULT OF PERSONALITY
The Henry Jackson Society report makes clear: the myth of Khamenei’s untouchable authority has cracked. During the 12-Day War of June 2025, Israeli strikes forced the Supreme Leader to abandon public appearances and hide in a fortified bunker. For millions of Iranians, the image of their ruler in hiding marked the symbolic collapse of his cult of personality.
Once portrayed as a near-divine figure, Khamenei now appears as an old man clinging to power, isolated and dependent on the Revolutionary Guards. His religious aura has evaporated, replaced by anger and ridicule on Iran’s streets. The regime is no longer feared as sacred — it is mocked as weak.
THE FUTURE: CHAOS OR FREEDOM?
The Henry Jackson Society outlines three possible futures for Iran if the regime collapses:
- A violent power struggle — rival factions of the Revolutionary Guards seizing control, plunging the country into civil war.
- Another authoritarian regime — a new strongman replacing the old system, keeping Iran trapped in tyranny.
- A democratic transition — led by the people of Iran, supported by the free world, and secured through American leadership.
The first two scenarios mean chaos, instability, and danger for the region and the world. But the third is still possible. With the right support, Iran can become not a source of terror but a pillar of peace. The choice is not only Iran’s — it belongs to America, too.
WE, THE PEOPLE OF IRAN, CHOOSE FREEDOM
The Henry Jackson Society’s 2025 report outlines three scenarios for Iran’s future: civil war, a new dictatorship, or a democratic transition. The first two would bring only more blood, more poverty, and more instability — not only for Iran, but for the entire world.
We reject every option except a peaceful democratic transition. We, the people of Iran, have lived for decades under executions, corruption, and fear. We will not accept another dictator in place of the old one; we will not allow our nation to be torn apart by warlords, militias, and vested interests.
There is only one future worth living for: a peaceful democratic transition, built by Iranians, strengthened by the support of the free world, and secured by American leadership. This is the mission of Free Iran Now. Our very purpose is to prevent collapse from turning into war and chaos, and instead transform it into freedom.
We call upon the leader of the free world, President Trump, and upon all free nations: help us liberate Iran. With your support, democracy in Iran is not only possible — it is closer than ever.
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📌 Notes / Sources
- Henry Jackson Society (2025). Iran’s Regime on the Brink: Collapse, Transition or Chaos?
Download the full report (PDF) - New York Post (30 August 2025). Islamic Republic close to collapse in Iran, civil war possible after US, Israeli decimation of nuclear capabilities.
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