The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has spent his career calling for “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” His regime has murdered and maimed thousands of Americans, Israelis, and others. But now the future of both Khamenei and the Islamic Republic hangs in the balance.

Earlier this month, Israel launched a preemptive strike designed to destroy or seriously degrade Iran’s nuclear program and eliminate top officials. In its opening salvo, the Jewish state took out no fewer than two dozen top Iranian military commanders as well as 14 of the country’s top 15 nuclear scientists. The heads of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, aerospace forces, intelligence, and drone and air defense units were eliminated in what is likely the largest decapitation strike in modern military history.

Israel’s battlefield success helped pave........

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