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The Iran War: Act Two
(Ynet News) Dr. Raz Zimmt - During the recent operation against Iran, Israel, in unprecedented cooperation with the U.S., achieved significant gains. These included decapitating the senior Iranian leadership, attaining aerial and intelligence superiority, damaging missile arrays, partially disrupting command-and-control systems, and inflicting heavy damage on defense industries. Nevertheless, the destruction of Iran's nuclear program and severe damage to its missile array were only partially achieved. The Iranian regime proved to be an institutionalized, multilayered and resilient system, capable of maintaining functional continuity even under severe damage to its senior leadership and chains of command and control. At this stage, the Iranian regime does not appear likely to collapse in the short term. The new leadership, headed by Mojtaba Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is expected to maintain a rigid and defiant ideological line, at least on par with the one that characterized the era of Ali Khamenei. The writer is Director of the Iran and the Shi'ite Axis Program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).