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Iran's Calculations Are Scrambled by U.S. Raid in Caracas
(Wall Street Journal) Benoit Faucon - Iranian leaders were already reassessing their vulnerabilities after Israel shattered Iran's air defenses in a 12-day war in June. Trump joined the attack late in the war to bomb key Iranian nuclear facilities. Israel also decimated Iranian allies Hizbullah and Hamas, which were key members in Tehran's network of regional militias that helped deter attacks on Iran. Maduro's capture will now force the Iranian regime to weigh more heavily the possibility that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei could be forcibly removed, said Roozbeh Aliabadi, an Iranian consultant at Global Growth Advisors. "Maduro's capture is a game changer for Iran," he said. "It opens up possibilities that didn't exist in Iran before."