ANALYSIS: Will Iran learn from past mistakes of other regimes? 1/18/2018 10:08:26 AM A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen in Tehran on September 27, 2017. By Tony Duheaume Al Arabiya, 18 January 2018  -  Several factors that led to the fall of the Roman Empire, can clearly be seen in the problems now facing the Iranian regime. When the Roman Empire was close to collapse, it had been notching up victories in foreign wars, while at home economic stagnation had taken hold, political corruption was rife, and as a result of the administration’s money wasting, much of which came in the form of military spending, the poor had taken the brunt of the country’s woes, and as a result, serious civil disturbances had broken out across the land. In Iran, the massive sums being spent on the military, as well as being earmarked for foreign wars, has begun to sink the economy, and with inflation ris...