Iran, Khamenei in the Bunker: “We Will Win.” Between Lightning Appointments, Secrets and Threats: the Ayatollahs in Panic | Corriere della Sera (translated from Italian)

“And that’s exactly the effect Netanyahu was hoping to create,” Saeid Golkar, a professor and member of United Against Nuclear Iran, told Corriere. “He took them by surprise and disoriented them. The Israeli attack created a chasm in the regime, it was planned to paralyze the Islamic Republic, which, mutilated at the top, is struggling to decide its next moves.” . . . [Khamenei] does what he can, therefore. He replaces the military roles left uncovered “as Hezbollah did in October, with the pager attack, because he has to restore some semblance of control and direction,” comments the director of United Against Iran Nuclear, Jason Brodsky.