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Three days into Operation “Epic Fury,” the strategic question is not the scale of damage but the political vacuum left by the reported death of Ali Khamenei and whether Iran’s institutions can reconstitute authority or fragment under pressure. On March 2, Wikistrat hosted renowned expert Alex Vatanka to decode who runs Iran now, whether regime change is strategy or wishful thinking, and why the silence in Tehran's streets may be the most important signal of all