At least for the time being, the Israeli air campaign over Iran, in particular, seems to have effectively terrorized the Iranian people’s terrorizers.

Israeli intelligence has so thoroughly penetrated the Iranian security services that the Israel Defense Forces can effectively corral IRGC and Basij forces in the kill boxes of their choosing. They are making calls to individual Iranian security officers, informing them that they are on the “blacklist” and warning them to defect before they are eliminated. Before he met his fate at Israeli hands, the former head of the Basij paramilitary, Gholamerza Soleimani, had fled to the woods where ...

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