Iran in Chaos: Supreme Leader Assassination Plunges Country into Survival Fight
Airstrikes target Iranian leadership, causing unprecedented military and diplomatic pressure as the war escalates into a fight for the country's survival.
Iran endured a day of unprecedented military and diplomatic pressure on Tuesday as US airstrikes pushed the death toll in the country above 800 and the offices of Assembly of Experts, the body due to select a replacement for the assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei, were bombed.
It would be an extraordinary security lapse if it emerges that many of the 88 elderly clerics on the assembly had been in the building in Qom voting at the time. "There was another hit today on the new leadership, and it looks like that was pretty substantial," Trump said at a White House event, although it was unclear what specifically he was talking about.
The chaos signals that Iran is struggling to function as the war turns into a fight for survival. The country is facing unprecedented military and diplomatic pressure, with the US and its allies ramping up their attacks and exerting maximum pressure on Tehran. The assassination of the supreme leader has left a power vacuum at the top, and the regime is now fighting for its very existence.
Source: The Guardian
