For Trump, a Path Forward on Iran That Goes Beyond Bombs

Iran has witnessed cycles of protests in the recent past, but the popular uprising that ignited on Dec. 28 is something altogether different—broader in scale, more desperate in tenor, and far more threatening to the survival of the Islamic Republic.

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The spark for the uprising was the market. When the Iranian currency, the rial, plunged yet again, bazaar merchants in Tehran—the traditional backbone of the Islamic Republic—walked out of their shops and into the streets.