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Iran’s Dangerous Perception of Victory

Exclusive: Senior Officials Say Tehran Isn’t Bluffing — It Believes It Is Winning; They advocate targeting energy. Mojtaba Khamenei is believed to be alive and functioning

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Mar 27, 2026
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President Donald Trump said yesterday that he is postponing threatened US strikes on Iranian power plants by ten days, because negotiations are going “very well.”

A central question, of course, is who exactly the U.S. is talking to, and who is supposed to sign off on the negotiations. There have been no public sightings of Iran’s new Supreme Leader sinc…

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