Hiding in a secret bunker, speaking indirectly to commanders through a handful of trusted aides, naming a string of successors to his increasingly battered military command — and significantly, to his own position— and avoiding anything trackable or electronic.
This is said to be the shrinking world of Iran’s supreme leader, who has ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly four decades, as the nation buckles under the largest attacks on its soil since the war with Iraq in the 1980s.
