When will the Air Force’s B-2 bombers pay another visit to Iran?

That decision is actually up to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, and his now-smaller inner ring of advisers, some of whom probably remain agents of Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence service.

It is a useful skill to be able to put yourself in an adversary’s shoes. Lawyers try to do it on a daily basis. Political campaigns are all about the anticipation of attacks and the imagination of counterattacks. Militaries spend a great deal of time considering operational plans and counterplans. It’s the oldest game in the world: What will your opponent do?

And Khamenei has no specific idea what President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will do if the ayatollah begins to rebuild his nuclear weapons program. Or, indeed, if he launches a terrorist attack on Israel or the United States, or their citizens anywhere in the world. He’s only got a good idea that the reprisals would be swift and devastating.

Trump’s decision to bomb parts of the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons assembly line mattered, of course, because it disrupted the........

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