The regime continues to survive because it sucks the blood out of every single Iranian person, whether it's their money, their dignity or their human rights. They have amassed it, and what do they do with it? Instead of serving its people, what it does is spend it on terrorism and repression and hype up its own mafia, because the IRGC really is like a mafia that holds the purse strings of the entire nation. They help one another. At the same time, neighbouring authoritarian regimes prop up this particular regime. They feed off the same repression handbook, and they don't end up serving their own people.
I'll just stop there.