“There are no indications that the central government in Tehran is losing control — quite the opposite. The Iranian regime appears to be tightening its grip,” the three officials said.
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“My biggest fear is the uncertainty and the ambiguity of it all,” Neda, 35, said in a social media chat from a suburb on the outskirts of northern Tehran.
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Pakistan’s tilt toward Iran may carry significant costs. Washington has warned that countries doing business with Tehran could face secondary sanctions.
Based on information from April 2024, Khamenei may be getting fed false data about the war's status. This could lead to more IDF misjudgments and a longer war.
The US has so far taken only indirect actions, including helping to shoot down missiles fired toward Israel.
In his first remarks since Friday, when he delivered a speech broadcast on state media after Israel began bombarding Iran, Khamenei said peace or war could not be imposed on the Islamic Republic.
Mr. President, this extreme theocracy needs to fall. Make its destruction as explicit a policy as the defeat of Nazi Germany or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.