Mojtaba Khamenei’s elevation is already being read as proof that the Islamic Republic’s command structure remains intact, that the regime has absorbed another shock and moved on. That reading is wrong. What happened is not continuity. It is the moment a revolutionary republic founded against monarchy made supreme authority a matter of bloodline. That contradiction may damage Iran more durably than the bombs falling on it. Iran’s system was designed, in theory at least, to rest on something

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