Two words get used as if they mean the same thing. They do not. “Regime change” means new rulers in Tehran. “Dismemberment” means no Tehran to rule at all. Washington has flirted with the first idea for decades. Israel, in its most candid strategic writing, has quietly built the case for the second. The distinction is not academic. It decides whether Iran remains one exhausted, humbled state or becomes six-or-seven-armed fragments, each a magnet for the next war. A mosaic, not a monolith, but not a house of cards either Iran is not Persia with an accent problem. Persians make up roughly 61 percent of its 90-plus million people. Azeris are close to 16 percent, Kurds about 10 percent, Lurs […]