What emerges from the record is not a state in collapse, nor one rebuilding a carbon copy of what was destroyed. Iran is doing something more strategically interesting: conducting a doctrinal audit in real time, explicitly debating whether Mosaic Defence needs to be deepened, revised, or replaced. The answers being given by different factions inside the regime are not the same — which itself tells us something important about the political dynamics shaping reconstitution. The doctrinal debate: deepen, revise, or abandon? The most important analytical development is that Iran's post-war internal discourse has made the doctrinal debate explicit rather than tacit. This is unusual — states rarely publish their strategic self-criticism so transparently — and it gives us unusually direct insight into the reconstitution logic. The clearest doctrinal signal came from IRGC analyst Khani in October 2025. Khani proposed expanding former IRGC Commander Major General Mohammad Ali J...