Donald Trump is bombing Iran and promising “unconditional surrender” — even hinting he’ll help pick Tehran’s next leader, “like with Delcy in Venezuela.” But a classified National Intelligence Council report, finished days before Operation Epic Fury began, quietly warned that even an all‑out U.S.–Israel assault is “unlikely” to topple Iran’s clerical‑military system or stop its succession machine. Analysts say elites are built to survive decapitation strikes, opposition groups are too fractured, and figures like Mojtaba Khamenei still loom over the battlefield — no matter how many bombs fall
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