Rishab Rathi
The latest Israeli and US war on Iran began with strategic airstrikes on the home and offices of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was reportedly meeting with advisors at the time and has been confirmed dead from the surprise attack.
The apparent US-Israeli assumption behind the targeted strikes was that Khamenei’s sudden removal would fatally weaken Iran’s Islamic regime. The logic resembled the collapses seen in Libya after Muammar al-Qaddafi and in Syria after Bashar al-Assad, where the state unraveled once those central figures were removed. In those cases, political order was deeply personal and closely tied to a single ruler.
Iran, however, is structured much differently. Few contemporary states place as much visible authority in one leader as Iran does in the supreme leader. Religious legitimacy, command of the armed forces and final political arbitration converge in the office, which sits atop a dense institutional network designed not merely to serve the leader but to constrain, supervise and, if necessary, outlast him.
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