The deaths weren’t just symbolic—they were surgical. The head of the Revolutionary Guards. The architect of Iran’s missile programme. The chief of military intelligence. The coordinator of national defence. Gone. One by one, the core of Khamenei’s advisory ring has been eliminated, shattering the command-and-control structure he built over three decades.
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