Ansar Mahmood Bhatti The specter of a widening regional war has brought the world perilously close to fears of a third world war, as declared by the Russian administration on March 3, 2026. The reported elimination of much of Iran’s senior military leadership and the claimed assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have triggered urgent geopolitical recalculations from Tehran to Islamabad, and from Washington to Moscow and Beijing. This moment starkly reveals a core misreading in many regime-change fantasies: the assumption that systems rooted in ideology, institutional continuity, and deepRead More