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

The generational divide has now reached a point of total psychological separation. The Iranian Gen Z and Millennials, who make up the bulk of the current movement, have no memory of the 1979 revolution and no affinity for its rigid clerical dictates. They are a "horizonless generation" that sees the world through high-speed internet but lives under laws from the Middle Ages. For them, the regime is not a government but an occupying force that restricts their music, their clothes, and their very thoughts.