July 25, 2025: This is the end of Iran’s military and economic capabilities. The June Israeli airstrikes, along with the American B2 bomber strikes that destroyed their nuclear weapons program, have left Iranian weapons manufacturing devastated. The Iranian economy has, over the last thirteen years, seen a GDP decline of nearly 50 percent. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/IRGC thugs remain a physical threat to the Iranian population.

Leader Ali Khamenei is nearly 90 years old. Iranians are wondering who or what will come after Khamenei . Perhaps freedom and democracy. That would mean Iranians enduring a brutal civil war. There has not been a change of government since the 1979 Islamic revolution that ended the centuries-old monarchy and replaced it with a disruptive and destructive religious dictatorship. The world, and Iranians, wonder how much punishment and deprivation the population will take before there is another revolution.

Khamenei gave the people violence, torture, mass murder and a rapidly declining standard of living. Iranians will eventually reach a breaking point and insist on a new government that will bring peace, prosperity and an end to decades of death and deprivation. Khamenei believes Allah is on his side while an increasing number of Iranians abandon Islam for no religion or a return to the traditional Persian Zoroastrianism, the local religion for thousands of years until it was forcefully replaced by militant and destructive Islam 1,400 years ago.

A growing number of Iranians want to return to the gold age of Zoroastrianism, when Persia prospered and dominated the region militarily and economically. Even the Romans were unable to subdue the Persians. The devastating Mongol invasions of the 13th century killed over ten million people. The subsequent Moslem invasions killed even more and reduced the economy to a fraction of that it once was. The discovery of oil over a century ago brought prosperity to Iran, at least until the 1979 revolution. Before that Iran was on good terms with the Americans and Israelis. Iranians remember their elders' stories of that golden age. How much more oppression and poverty will Iranians endure before they rise up and replace it with something better? Persian and Iranian history describes numerous rebellions against unjust rule. Another ruler will come; it’s just a question of when.