How Israel and the U.S. Dismantled Iran’s Apparatus of Oppression

In trying to assess the outcome of the war—if indeed it is over—one place to look is not at the toll it has taken on Iran’s military might, but at its ability to repress its own people. Those with access to information on the ground assess that over 100 sites tied to the internal security forces have been struck, thousands of officers killed, and many thousands more wounded. Amirhadi Anvari notes that the apparatus of repression has been degraded at every level, and draws particular attention to what has happened outside of Tehran: