On Saturday'the first day of the present air war against Iran'the United States and Israel reportedly killed 48 regime leaders, including the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Today an Israeli strike flattened the site in Qom where the regime's most senior clerics gathered to elect a new supreme leader'though it's unclear just how many were in the building at the time. This targeting success surely owes much to advanced electronic surveillance and deep cyber penetration of Iran's weapons systems and infrastructure. But in this war, as in the 12-day war last year, Israel and the United States are obviously benefiting from intelligence from some Iranians themselves, who are willing to risk their lives to help bring down the Islamic Republic. The Iranian regime has oppressed, humiliated, and murdered its people. In anger and pain, those people make a joke out of their readiness to accept rescue from any source'and to aid and welcome that rescuer in any way they can. Rescue does...
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