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Iran's regime is fighting for survival, but the greatest threat to the ayatollahs may not be coming from Israel or America. It's coming from inside Iran itself. Meira K exposes the growing armed resistance against the Islamic Republic that much of the international media is overlooking. From Baloch fighters launching deadly attacks against Iranian security forces in the southeast to Kurdish opposition groups challenging the Revolutionary Guards along the Iraqi border, Iran is facing an increasingly dangerous rebellion on multiple fronts. Meanwhile, Arab communities in the oil-rich southwest have their own reasons for wanting the regime gone. Meira reveals how decades of persecution have fueled these uprisings and how renewed American and Israeli strikes could stretch the regime's forces to the breaking point. But there's a dangerous catch: Some of the groups fighting the ayatollahs have extremist ties, and America's history of backing foreign insurgencies offers serious warnings. Could Iran's own people finally accomplish what decades of sanctions, diplomacy and military strikes have failed to achieve, or could the fall of the Islamic Republic unleash an entirely new crisis?