Burns has long believed the Iranian regime is on a one-way street toward eventual collapse due to being deeply unpopular at home and having an unsustainable broader strategy, but worries that the war may have slowed rather than accelerated that eventual collapse.

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Bill Burns

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this is a regime that's on a kind of one-way street to its eventual collapse, but I worry that, you know, in this war, what we've done, rather than accelerate that moment of collapse, is slow it down a little bit

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William J. Burns: America in a World of Upheaval | Foreign Affairs InterviewForeign Affairs
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:46:13 PM

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