What Happens After the Islamic Regime in Iran Falls?

What happens when Iran’s Islamic regime falls? I’ll tell you what doesn’t happen: the world doesn’t end. Quite the opposite. It begins again, for Iranians, for Israel, and for the Middle East.

Demonstrators in solidarity with protesters in Iran call for the overthrow of the regime for Women, Life, Freedom at Farragut Square. (Shutterstock)

Let’s stop pretending the fall of the Islamic Republic is some kind of dangerous unknown. It’s not. The real danger has been keeping it alive.

For 47 years, the mullahs in Tehran have hijacked a country that once led the region in science, art, and human dignity. They replaced it with public hangings, child marriages, and a foreign policy of terror. They took a nation that once had a peaceful relationship with Israel and turned it into the number one state sponsor of antisemitism and global terrorism.

But Iran’s people are not the regime. Anyone with eyes can see this. From the 2009 Green Revolution to the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests, Iranians have risked everything, literally everything, to take their country back. They’ve been shot, hanged, raped, tortured. And yet they still rise.

So when this regime finally falls, and yes, it will fall, the real question isn’t “what happens?” It’s “how fast can we help build the future?”

Iran Will Be Free and Dangerous No More

Once the Islamic regime collapses, the biggest export out of Iran, terror, dries up overnight.

No more billions flowing to Hezbollah. No more drones and rockets smuggled to Hamas and the Houthis. No more Iranian weapons killing Israeli children. No more nuclear race. No more Shiite militias terrorizing Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon.

Iran’s fall cuts the legs out from under every terror group in the region. Without Tehran, they’re toast. They’ll scream and posture, but without Iran’s cash and weapons, they’re nothing.

Israel knows this better than anyone. Every time we take out a Hamas commander, or intercept a shipment of Iranian missiles, we’re not just fighting Gaza, we’re fighting the Islamic regime in Iran. The Islamic Republic isn’t just a threat to Israel. It is the engine of war in the Middle East. Break the engine, the machine stops.

Winter Tehran view with a snow covered Alborz Mountains on background (Shutterstock)

A Real Ally in the Middle East?

Here’s something the West doesn’t want to say out loud, so I will: a free Iran could be one of Israel’s strongest allies.

Before 1979, Iran and Israel had a real relationship. Strategic, economic, even cultural. Iranian Jews were safe, Iranian Christians were respected, and Iranian women had more rights than most women in Europe. That's not fantasy. That’s history.

You want to talk about regime change? This isn’t some far-fetched idea. The people want it. They chant “Death to the Dictator,” not “Death to America.” They burn images of Khamenei, not the American flag. They carry pictures of the late Shah’s son, and they scream for normal relations with the West, and yes, even with Israel.

The Iranian people are not the enemy. They’ve never been. The mullahs are.

And when they fall, we may see something nobody expects: an Iran that not only stops fighting Israel, but actually partners with us to rebuild the Middle East. Think of that. The two greatest ancient powers of the region, Persia and Israel, working side by side.

What About the Chaos?

Now, the cynical experts will say: "Wait! The regime falls and there's chaos! Civil war! Power vacuum! Worse than before!"

That’s what cowards say when they want to do nothing.

Of course there’s risk. Every dictatorship clings to power by warning of the apocalypse if they fall. That’s their game. But we’ve seen it before. Eastern Europe. Latin America. Even the Arab Spring, as messy as it was, showed one truth: people will choose freedom if you give them the chance, and support.

The Iranian people are educated, connected, and united like never before. Millions of young Iranians are tech-savvy, Western-friendly, and desperate for a future. They are not waiting for a foreign army to “liberate” them. They’re asking for solidarity, not soldiers.

The West needs to grow a spine. Instead of coddling the regime out of fear, it should isolate it, starve it, and back the people.

And let’s not forget: when Pharaoh fell, the Israelites walked free. Sometimes collapse is the only road to freedom.

Following Iran's attack on Israel, the German-Israeli Society calls for a solidarity rally. Participants from the Iranian opposition were also present. (Shutterstock)

A Biblical Turn of the Page

There’s a verse that’s been on my mind a lot lately:

“I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.” – Jeremiah 49:35

Elam is ancient Iran. And Jeremiah wasn’t predicting peace negotiations, he was talking about justice. Real justice. The kind that ends tyranny and opens the door for redemption.

The fall of the Islamic regime would be the end of a dark chapter, but not the end of Iran. It would be the beginning of its return. A second chance for a nation crushed under clerical boots for too long.

Israelis understand this. Jews understand this. We have suffered under empires. We have watched kings fall and nations rise. But we’ve also seen how God can take what looks like ruin and use it for revival.

Iran will not vanish. It will not implode. It will be reborn. And the Middle East will breathe again.

So what happens when the Islamic regime falls?

Here’s what happens:

• Terror loses its bank account.

• Peace stops being a fantasy.

• Israel and Iran start talking like neighbors, not enemies.

• Women in Iran walk free.

• Jews in Iran return home.

• And the Middle East takes its first real step toward sanity.

This isn’t some utopian dream. It’s called preparing for reality.

Because the Islamic regime is already dying. The people have turned. The world is waking up. The protests haven’t stopped; they’ve just gone underground. The fire is still burning.

And when the dam breaks, the flood won’t just wash away the Ayatollah. It’ll water the roots of a new Iran, one that we can finally welcome back to the family of nations.

The question isn’t if the regime will fall. The question is: are we ready for what comes next?

Because I am. And I know millions of Iranians are too.