IRGC

The absence of leadership is leading to questions about who might be the real decision maker in Tehran now. One name being mentioned is Ali Larijani. Who is Larijani, and why does he matter?

There is no question that the primary thrust of Trump's decision to attack Iran was his belief of the need to remove it as a nuclear threat and as a general threat within the Middle East.

Marom argued that the strike reshaped regional alignments and revealed weaknesses in Iran’s threat posture.

CENTCOM also cited US President Donald Trump's call for "members of Iran's armed forces, IRGC, and police to 'lay down your weapons,'" and to "Abandon ship!"

Two major headquarters which were struck were the Interior Ministry headquarters and the Tharallah headquarters in Tehran.

The killing of Khamenei closes the chapter on one of the most consequential and destructive figures in modern Middle Eastern history.

Israel strikes Iran's Tharallah headquarters used to suppress, murder protesters • IDF targets Islamic regime bases, ballistic missile apparatus

The IRGC ignored the fact that Israel changed after the October 7 massacre, and now they’re paying the price. Dictatorships don’t fall from outside; they collapse from within.

One likely candidate to run the Islamic regime after the Ayatollah's death is Ahmad Vahidi, who was the IRGC deputy chief on the eve of the war.

Trump claimed Iran was interested in restarting talks with Washington • Iranian cluster munitions seen in Israeli airspace • Six injured in Jerusalem, nine killed in Beit Shemesh in missile barrage