WASHINGTON—Stressing that the unique socio-economic factors currently at play have created a historic, one-of-a-kind powder keg, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Marcus Vane reportedly opened a dusty Microsoft Word document Tuesday to simply copy and paste his “Tehran Teetering On The Brink” op-ed originally written during the Green Movement of 2009. “We are witnessing a pivotal, unprecedented moment where the wall of fear has finally cracked,” said Vane, reading verbatim from a paragraph he also published in *Foreign Affairs* during the 2017, 2019, and 2022 uprisings, only pausing to update the current age of the Supreme Leader and use ‘Find and Replace’ to swap out the specific grievance sparking the riots. “History tells us that regimes look stable until the very moment they aren’t. I have predicted that moment correctly zero times in the last two decades, but the law of averages suggests that if I just keep publishing this same 800-word column every six months, eventually I’ll be the visionary who called it.” At press time, Vane was seen hurriedly deleting a reference to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before emailing the draft to the *New York Times* opinion desk with the subject line “THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT.”