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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

With few good strategic options, Iran’s best prospect may be to retaliate while it can

Emergency workers in the background behind the charred remains of a car
The broad assault on large cities across Iran began in the morning, a change from the pattern of night-time strikes. Photograph: Amir Kholousi/AP

Venezula’s Nicholás Maduro was captured. But Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have chosen a different strategy for Iran: to target and aim to kill the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and as many other senior regime figures as possible.

Though Iranian military sites and its air defence systems were also targeted by coordinated US and Israeli bombing, beginning in the morning, the most significant attack was on Khamenei’s compound in Tehran.

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