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Iran's Leadership Signals It Is Still in Control and Able to Fight
(Wall Street Journal) Margherita Stancati - After 10 days of punishing airstrikes by the U.S. and Israel, Iran's leadership is battered but showing signs it is still in control and able to fight. Iran's military continues to hit high-value targets across a wide front encompassing Arab Gulf countries, Israel and beyond, though it is firing fewer missiles than in the first days of the war. "Resilience should not be mistaken for strength," said Ali Vaez, director of the Iran project at the International Crisis Group. "The regime looks more brittle than broken, relying less on legitimacy than on repression, institutional discipline, and a shared sense among elites that their survival is now existential."