Khamenei was killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability.
NEW | The United States and Israel are pursuing several lines of effort to achieve their stated campaign objectives: 1) suppressing Iranian air defenses, 2) degrading Iranian retaliatory capabilities, and 3) disrupting Iranian command-and-control.
The combined US-Israeli force… pic.twitter.com/dG59usRsTz
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Farsi linguists in Tehran hard at work making sense of this threat. but in Queens Duolingo, this is Jamaica Estates channeling its best Sunnyside.
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