Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit Email PrintThree-minute readThe snapback of UN sanctions has exposed how brittle the clerical dictatorship already is. On October 2, 2025, the free-market dollar broke 117,000 tomans, up by more than 1,000 tomans from the previous day. The louder officials threaten an NPT exit, the narrower their economic and diplomatic escape routes become. And the more they brand dissent as an external plot, the less they address the grievances they themselves cite—livelihood, unemployment, inflation, housing. In Iran today, instability is not just the price of isolation; it is the symptom of a terrorist dictatorship doomed to fall.