If Iran’s ruling regime collapses—whether through elite fracture, mass uprising, or some kind of prolonged military encounter with the United States after last Saturday’s bombing—the post–Islamic Republic landscape will be defined by a fierce and uncertain contest among rival factions. The most likely players include: the military-security apparatus, hard-line Islamist ideologues, sidelined reformist technocrats, remnants of civil society, and exiled opposition groups. Their varying degrees of

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