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The Iranian regime has spent decades exporting terror, building proxy armies, and treating American blood as an acceptable cost of its revolution. Calling that project a failed state is a description, not an insult. A government that cannot keep the lights on at home while funding militias abroad is already living on borrowed time.Leaders who order strikes, hostage-taking, and proxy wars do not get to retire into elder-statesman interviews. War-crimes accountability is the difference between a reset that leaves the same men in charge and a reset that ends their impunity. Sanctions, isolation, and the prospect of a dock in court are the tools that actually change their math.The United States does not owe the mullahs another nuclear pause or another round of talks that expire when the next shipment of missiles leaves the dock. Maximum pressure on the regime and a clear path to individual liability for its commanders is the policy that matches the record. A dead ideology can still kill people until someone cuts off the money and the men who run it. That is the unfinished business.