Tehran as Caracas: Strategic Decapitation as the Final Act of a Contractually Agreed Transition

A hypothesis in which military force does not open regime change but closes a negotiated sequence by removing veto-holding leaders and enabling an immediate transfer of authority

It is now hard to deny that regime change has become the evident objective in Iran. Unlike the intervention of a few months ago, the aim here is not to degrade the regime’s military capabilities, but to decapitate its religious apex and induce a collapse of the command chain. The key point is interpretive: over the past decades, military intervention ha…