After Trump Talks of ‘Regime Change,’ Israel Carries Out Strikes Targeting Iranian Tools of Repression

Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran, said that Israel’s targeted strikes penetrated deep into “the belly of the beast of the Islamic Republic.” “Tehran uses a multi-layered system to suppress and repress its people consisting of the police, Basij, and IRGC Sarallah Headquarters,” he said. “By degrading these institutions, this is scrambling the bureaucracy and weakening command-and-control at least temporarily. It shatters the myth of the Islamic Republic as all powerful and incapable of being countered. It’s an important image to project to Iranians.”