US EditionIran’s Supreme Leader Is Trapped
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Trapped
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has built a system that survives only through repression. Yet now, a man who has never been willing to retreat confronts a dilemma from which there is no clean exit: continued internal war against his own people, or an external war that exposes his regime's fragility.
The second time Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has gone underground is not just a security issue, but a sign of the looming crisis looming over the future of Iran's ruling system. Amid US pressure, internal opposition, and economic turmoil, the question of whether Khamenei's era is nearing its end is growing. Why Khamenei went underground: 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has virtually disappeared from public life for the secon…
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