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CIA Warned of Hardline IRGC Succession Ahead of U.S.–Israel Strikes as Regime Change Loomed

  By: Carl Schwartzbaum In the tense days leading up to Saturday’s coordinated U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iranian targets, American intelligence agencies were already grappling with a question that has long haunted policymakers in Washington: if Iran’s supreme leader were removed from power, what — or who — would replace him? According to […]