The Threshold of Fear: Why 2026 Marks the End of the Islamic Republic

History shows that once a nation’s "political imagination" expands beyond the current system, that system is doomed. Iranians are no longer imagining who will be the next Supreme Leader; they are imagining what the new Constitution will look like. They are debating the merits of a federal republic versus a constitutional monarchy, proving that the mental transition to a post-Islamic Republic era has already occurred.