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🇮🇷 The intelligence community always assessed that killing the Supreme Leader would rally Iran behind the regime. The funeral crowds just proved it at a scale nobody modeled… Joe Kent ran counterterrorism for this government, and his verdict on those processions was unsparing: the Israelis outplayed Washington by getting...

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