The assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and key figures like Ali Larajani has plunged Iran into a leadership crisis, with his injured and reclusive son Mojtabah Khamenei now the official successor. The regime, already deeply unpopular, is clinging to power through re
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