The Iranian regime’s leadership has sought to portray its posture around the Strait of Hormuz as evidence of strength and strategic leverage. Mohsen Rezaei is now Secretary of the Iranian regime’s Supreme National Security Council. The result is an economy in which ordinary Iranians bear the cost not primarily of a lack of national wealth, but of the regime’s political and budgetary priorities. Tehran’s Strategic MiscalculationThe Iranian regime’s leadership may therefore be correct about one thing: military bombing alone is unlikely to overthrow the regime. The Iranian regime’s leadership has spent decades preparing to survive military attacks.