The rapidly deteriorating situation inside Iran — marked by mounting public unrest, deepening economic crises, and increasing acts of defiance — and the dramatic developments sweeping across the Middle East have pierced a once-durable perception: that the Islamic Republic is immovable and destined to endure.

For the first time in decades, a palpable sense of possibility has emerged — that the regime might fall. This shift in sentiment has inspired a flurry of proposals on both sides of the Atlantic aimed at accelerating the regime’s imminent collapse.

Among them is the Maximum Support Act, a bill introduced by Reps. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., and Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif. Though likely well-intentioned, it rests on a precarious foundation: the idea that encouraging defections and funding nonviolent dissidents will trigger regime change.

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