The ‘decapitating’ strike against Tehran has triggered a succession process, but perhaps not the succession crisis it aimed for
The past 24 hours have given Iran’s leadership transition a tangible shape, while also revealing how dangerously the very idea of “normal” is shifting in international politics. The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a joint US-Israeli operation against Iran is a demonstrative precedent, read across the Middle East as the legalization of a blunt principle – when power is sufficient, sovereignty can be suspended at will.
As a researcher of Middle Eastern politics, I cannot treat such actions as a “surgical strike.”…
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