Khamenei's death: Have US, Israel achieved their goals, or is Iran unbreakable?
India Today
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's killing by the US and Israel was meant to break the system in Iran. Instead, it has tested it, and, for now, it has seemingly strengthened it. The conflict is widening across the Middle East, and it appears that Iran is not going to step back.
As the crisis in Iran escalated, the speculation that the Shia regime's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, might be killed by the US and/or Israel, was always there. And then Khamenei's killing happened on Saturday. The US and Israeli forces launched coordinated strikes on the morning of February 28, targeting Iranian leadership and military sites in what Washington dubbed "Operation Epic Fury" and Tel Aviv called "Roaring Lion". However, even after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran has shown no signs of capitulation. It has been relentless in its counterstrikes, which has spread the fire across the Middle East.
A regime change has not happened, and a senior cleric, Ayatollah Arafi, has been named the interim Supreme Leader. Meanwhile, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has already said the regime sees revenge for the attacks by Israel and the US as its "legitimate right and duty".
"US President Donald Trump has crossed 'a very dangerous red line' by killing Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei," the Iranian deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh told CNN on Sunday.
The joint strikes by the US and Israel killed top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders, the Army's Chief of Staff, Abdul Rahim Mousavi, and Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh, other than hitting suspected nuclear sites.
Tehran has launched intense retaliation, with missile barrages on Israeli cities and 14 US bases in the Gulf region, even as it vowed "severe punishment" to both Israel and America.
This raises a very important question: Have the US and Israel fulfilled their goals of weakening the regime? Or curbing its regional influence? Did the strike force a behavioural change in the nature of the Iranian leadership? Or has it become more determined to take on Israel and the US?
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