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Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
The international community could have stayed tight on sanctions and kept them repressed until there was a regime change.
This is absolutely wrong. The strength of sanctions was dependent on Russian and Chinese cooperation, and they never had any interest in regime change even if that were possible. You underestimate the level of support that the Mullahs have among the Iranian public.
Sanctions did manage to get a more moderate president elected, which is what led to the talks and the deal in the first place, which was a bend in Iran's will, but you're talking about an absolute collapse, and if you think an America or Israel-friendly regime would rise up after that collapse, you clearly know nothing about Iran. If anything the new regime would be worse.