The emerging U.S.-Iranian cease-fire framework invites a deceptively simple question: Who won the war? It is also the wrong question. Iran did not defeat the United States and Israel, nor did the Islamic Republic collapse under military pressure. What matters now is what Tehran managed to preserve, what it permanently lost, and whether a battered regime can convert a negotiated respite into political survival without unleashing the public expectations it has spent years repressing. The reported

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